.IT WAS A remarkable gap in protection: just how did a sniper install an unprotected rooftop with a straight view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing up a simple 150m away? Based upon video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- spared by a privileged convert of the head an immediate before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals eliminated a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot himself.