.IT WAS ACTUALLY A spectacular gap in protection: how carried out a sniper mount an unsafe roof along with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was actually standing up a simple 150m away? Based upon video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality– saved by a lucky convert of the crown a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals eliminated a rally-goer just before being fatally shot himself.