.IT WAS A magnificent gap in security: exactly how performed a sniper mount an unprotected roof with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a plain 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- conserved by a lucky turn of the head a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired himself.