.IT WAS A remarkable gap in surveillance: how performed a sniper install an unprotected rooftop with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, who was standing a mere 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality-- spared through a lucky turn of the crown an immediate before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals killed a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired themself.