.IT WAS ACTUALLY An impressive lapse in surveillance: just how did a sniper install an unsafe rooftop along with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing up a mere 150m away? Based upon online video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality– conserved through a lucky convert of the head a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer before being actually fatally fired themself.