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35 yrs after, Reagan’s shooter officially released from psychiatric hospital

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35 yrs after, Reagan’s shooter officially released from psychiatric hospital
John Hinckley, the man who hugged headlines in the US when he attempted to assassinate then American President, Ronald Reagan outside a hotel in Washington‎ on March 30, 1981, has officially been released from psychiatric hospital.
Sixty-one-year-old Hinckley was among those scheduled for discharge from a psychiatric hospital in the US capital Washington DC, according to national media reports.
A spokeswoman for the District of Columbia’s Department of Mental Health who validated the claim said early on Saturday that all patients scheduled to leave St. Elizabeths Hospital had been discharged.
 Reports also revealed that a rental car pulled into the driveway of the Hinckley home in Williamsburg in Virginia at about 2:30pm.

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 Hinckley’s release has dozens of conditions attached, including a requirement that he works or volunteers at least three days a week, limit his travel, allow law enforcement to track his movements and continue meeting with a psychiatrist.

He was aged 25 when he shot and wounded Reagan, his press secretary James Brady (who was left paralysed), Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and DC policeman Thomas Delahant.

 When probed to divulge his motive for shooting at Reagan and three others outside the hotel in Washington, Hinckley who has spent the most of the last four decades at the psychiatric facility claimed he was trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, after developing an obsession with her role in the movie “Taxi Driver.”
 

 

 

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