.IT WAS A spectacular gap in security: how carried out a sniper install an unsafe roof with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a simple 150m away? Based on video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality-- spared by a blessed turn of the crown a flash just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer just before being actually fatally shot himself.