.IT WAS A remarkable gap in surveillance: exactly how did a sniper mount an unsecured roof with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from death– saved by a blessed turn of the crown a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer just before being actually fatally fired themself.