.IT WAS A magnificent gap in surveillance: how did a sniper install an unsafe rooftop with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, that was actually standing a mere 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality– saved by a lucky turn of the head a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer just before being actually fatally fired himself.