.IT WAS ACTUALLY A sensational gap in surveillance: just how carried out a sniper mount an unsecured rooftop with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, that was standing a plain 150m away? Based on video footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality– conserved by a privileged turn of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer just before being fatally fired himself.