.IT WAS ACTUALLY A magnificent gap in surveillance: just how did a sniper mount an unprotected roof along with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, who was standing a simple 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality– spared by a fortunate turn of the head a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels killed a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired himself.