.IT WAS A sensational gap in protection: just how performed a sharpshooter mount an unsafe rooftop along with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing a simple 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality-- saved by a blessed convert of the head a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals killed a rally-goer just before being fatally shot himself.