.IT WAS A stunning gap in protection: just how performed a sniper install an unprotected roof along with a straight view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a simple 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality-- saved through a lucky turn of the crown a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer prior to being fatally shot themself.