.IT WAS A remarkable lapse in security: just how carried out a sniper install an unsecured roof with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, that was standing a plain 150m away? Based on video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from death-- spared by a lucky turn of the head a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals got rid of a rally-goer just before being fatally shot himself.