.IT WAS A spectacular gap in safety and security: just how did a sniper mount an unprotected rooftop along with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a simple 150m away? Based on online video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- saved by a privileged turn of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals killed a rally-goer just before being fatally fired themself.