.IT WAS A remarkable gap in protection: how performed a sniper mount an unsafe roof with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, that was actually standing a mere 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- spared by a blessed turn of the head a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer just before being fatally shot themself.