.IT WAS ACTUALLY A magnificent gap in safety: how did a sharpshooter install an unprotected roof with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, who was standing up a plain 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- spared by a privileged turn of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals got rid of a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired himself.