.IT WAS A stunning gap in safety and security: exactly how carried out a sharpshooter mount an unsafe roof with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing up a simple 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- spared by a fortunate convert of the crown a split second prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks eliminated a rally-goer just before being fatally shot themself.