.IT WAS A stunning gap in security: how carried out a sniper mount an unsecured roof with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, who was standing up a simple 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality-- saved by a blessed convert of the head a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars eliminated a rally-goer just before being fatally fired himself.