.IT WAS A sensational gap in surveillance: how performed a sniper install an unsafe roof along with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a mere 150m away? Based on online video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- saved by a blessed turn of the crown an immediate prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals eliminated a rally-goer just before being fatally shot themself.