A US federal judge confirmed Wednesday that John W. Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to kill then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981, will be released this month with no restrictions.
At a hearing, District of Columbia Federal Court Magistrate Paul Friedman ruled that after four decades of “supervision,” Hinckley “should be prepared to get on with his life.” “I am confident that Mr Hinckley will do well in his remaining years,” the judge said.
Hinckley, 67, currently lives under restrictions, which were imposed on him in July 2016, when he left the psychiatric hospital where he was admitted after, on March 30, 1981, at the age of 25, he opened fire on Reagan at the doors of the hospital. Washington Hilton Hotel.
Hinckley left the psychiatric hospital after it was determined he did not pose “a danger to himself or others”, and has since lived in Williamsburg (Virginia), about 250 kilometers from Washington, with his mother, Jo Ann Hinckley, who died last year.
In the 1981 bombing, Hinckley severely wounded Reagan, who managed to recover after being shot close to the heart. Additionally, he injured Reagan’s press secretary, James Brady; Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, who threw himself in front of the president to act as a shield, and police officer Thomas Delahanty. Hinckley confessed to trying to assassinate the then president to attract the attention of actress Jodie Foster and was found not guilty in June 1982 due to a diagnosis of insanity.
Ronald Reagan died in 2004 at age 90, but his sons, Ron Reagan Jr. and Patti Reagan Davis, have always opposed Hinckley’s release.
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