.IT WAS A stunning gap in safety and security: exactly how did a sharpshooter mount an unsafe rooftop with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a plain 150m away? Based upon video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from death– spared through a blessed convert of the crown an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals eliminated a rally-goer prior to being fatally shot himself.