John Hinckley JR, the gunman who shot Ronald Reagan just weeks into his first presidency, has been released from a Washington psychiatric hospital more than 35 years after the assassination attempt. Hinckley, 61, arrived at his mother’s home in Virginia yesterday after a judge ruled in July that he was no longer a danger to himself or the public. Hinckley shot and wounded Reagan and three other people outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981. Reagan was hit in the lung. Shortly before being wheeled into the operating theatre for surgery, the president, then 70, said to his wife…

Source: The Times September 10, 2016 23:15 UTC