John Hinckley Jr, Reagan`s would-be assassin, released after 35 years

  11 September 2016    Read: 797
John Hinckley Jr, Reagan`s would-be assassin, released after 35 years
John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, has been released from a psychiatric hospital after 35 years.
Mr Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981.

Mr Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity but was sent for treatment to a Washington hospital.

In July, a judge ruled that Mr Hinckley, now 61, was not a danger to himself or the public.

Mr Hinckley had already been spending 17 days a month at his mother`s home in Virginia under strict conditions.

Associated Press reported that he had arrived at her home having been freed on Saturday.

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