.IT WAS A sensational gap in security: how carried out a sharpshooter install an unprotected rooftop with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based on online video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- saved through a blessed turn of the crown a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals got rid of a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired themself.