.IT WAS ACTUALLY A spectacular gap in security: just how performed a sniper mount an unsecured roof with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, who was actually standing up a plain 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from death-- saved by a privileged turn of the crown a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired themself.