.IT WAS A sensational gap in safety and security: how carried out a sharpshooter mount an unprotected roof with a straight view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a simple 150m away? Based on video clip footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- spared by a fortunate turn of the crown a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer just before being actually fatally shot himself.