An Associated Press reporter saw a hired vehicle pull into the driveway of the Hinckley home at around 2:30 p.m. Officers from the Kingsmill Police Department chased reporters away.
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In recent years, Hinckley has spent 17 days a month at his mother’s home in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Mr Brady’s death in 2014 at the age of 73 was ruled to be a homicide, but no further charges against Hinckley were brought.
Hinckley’s long-time attorney didn’t provide any more details about his client’s whereabouts following his release but cited medical evaluations as proof he no longer poses any threat.
Following the attempted assassination, Hinckley was ultimately diagnosed with acute psychosis, major depression, and narcissistic personality disorder and, according to the court order, he has been in “full, stable, and sustained remission” from the first two diagnoses for more than two decades.
He is set to live full-time at his mother’s home in Williamsburg, Virginia.
On March 30, 1981, at 2:27 p.m. local time, John Hinckley Jr. pulled out and shot a.22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver six times at President Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., after the president addressed an AFL-CIO conference.
Many political commentators from Sean Hannity to Bill O’Reilly were infuriated by the news of Hinckley’s imminent release.
Former Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy says ‘I hope they’re right, ‘ when asked about the decision to release John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot Ronald Reagan in 1981. Before departing, Hinckley walked around and got into a auto with some people wishing him good luck, the worker said.
Hinckley, now 61, was 25 when he shot Reagan, a Secret Service agent, a District of Columbia police officer and James Brady, Reagan’s press secretary.
His obsession with the young actor started after he saw the 1976 film “Taxi Driver”, in which she plays an underage prostitute who the main character, Travis Bickle, tries to rescue before attempting to shoot a fictional United States senator.
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The judge also said Hinckley could be returned to St. Elizabeths if he relapses or violates the terms of his release. The judge ordered him to keep attending group sessions and personal evaluations with his psychiatrist, and he will be able to attend by himself since he received a driver’s license in 2011.
