.IT WAS A remarkable gap in protection: how did a sniper install an unprotected roof with a straight view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a mere 150m away? Based on video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality-- saved by a privileged convert of the crown an immediate before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals eliminated a rally-goer just before being actually fatally shot himself.