.IT WAS A spectacular gap in safety: exactly how performed a sharpshooter mount an unsecured rooftop along with a direct view to Donald Trump, that was standing up a plain 150m away? Based on online video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- saved by a fortunate turn of the crown a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels killed a rally-goer just before being fatally shot themself.