.IT WAS ACTUALLY A sensational gap in surveillance: exactly how did a sharpshooter mount an unsafe roof with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was standing up a mere 150m away? Based on video clip footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- conserved by a privileged turn of the head a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer before being fatally shot themself.