.IT WAS A spectacular gap in protection: just how performed a sharpshooter mount an unsecured roof with a straight view to Donald Trump, who was standing a mere 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality-- saved by a lucky turn of the crown a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer just before being fatally fired themself.