.IT WAS A sensational gap in security: exactly how did a sniper mount an unprotected rooftop along with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based on video clip footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality-- saved by a privileged convert of the head an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels killed a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot themself.