.IT WAS A sensational lapse in surveillance: exactly how carried out a sharpshooter install an unsafe rooftop with a direct view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a simple 150m away? Based on video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- spared through a fortunate turn of the crown a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer before being actually fatally fired themself.