.IT WAS A spectacular lapse in protection: just how carried out a sharpshooter install an unprotected rooftop along with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, who was standing up a mere 150m away? Based on video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- spared through a privileged convert of the crown an immediate prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot himself.