.IT WAS ACTUALLY An impressive lapse in security: exactly how did a sniper install an unsafe roof along with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based upon online video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality– conserved by a blessed convert of the head an immediate prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer before being fatally fired themself.