.IT WAS ACTUALLY A spectacular gap in protection: exactly how did a sharpshooter mount an unsecured rooftop along with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, that was standing up a plain 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- spared through a blessed convert of the crown a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer just before being fatally shot himself.