.IT WAS A magnificent gap in security: just how did a sharpshooter install an unprotected roof with a straight view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- conserved through a blessed turn of the head a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired himself.