.IT WAS A sensational lapse in surveillance: how carried out a sniper install an unprotected roof along with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was standing a mere 150m away? Based upon video footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- saved through a privileged turn of the head a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals eliminated a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired himself.