Authorities released John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan, his press secretary James Brady, and two law enforcement personnel in a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington, D.C., from a mental hospital on Saturday, NBC News reported.
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An Associated Press reporter saw a hired vehicle pull into the driveway of the Hinckley home about 2:30 p.m. Officers from the Kingsmill Police Department chased reporters away.
As a 25-year-old college dropout, Hinckley said he wanted to kill Reagan to impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he became obsessed after watching the 1976 film “Taxi Driver”. A Washington, D.C. policeman, Thomas Delahanty, lies to the left after also being shot.
The shooting in March 1981, just weeks into Ronald Reagan’s presidency, shocked the world.
Mr Reagan suffered a punctured lung but recovered quickly. Reagan was hit in the chest and was hospitalized for 12 days. 61-year-old John Hinckley Jr. will move in with his elderly mother in THIS gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Participation in “individual music therapy sessions” at least once a month and in “structured activities in the Williamsburg area”, including volunteer work is required.
And the Ronald Reagan shooter can expect continued negative reactions from his mother’s neighbors as many have voiced their concerns already when Hinckley was merely allowed out of the hospital for short visits.
Levine was not immediately available for comment when contacted by AFP.
According to the BBC, Judge Paul Friedman’s judgment to release Hinckley was because medical assessments showed that he has had “no symptoms of active mental illness” since 1983.
Man who tried to kill U.S. president in 1981 released from psychiatric hospital in Washington following court order. In one such instance, the hospital found photographs and letters in Hinckley’s room that revealed he still held his obsession with Foster.
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Don’t expect to see Hinckley giving any interviews.
