.IT WAS ACTUALLY A stunning gap in surveillance: just how performed a sniper mount an unsafe rooftop along with a straight view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- saved by a blessed convert of the crown a split second prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired himself.