.IT WAS An impressive gap in security: just how performed a sharpshooter mount an unprotected rooftop with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing a mere 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality-- saved through a lucky turn of the head an instant before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot themself.