September 10, 2016 at 8:20 pm
John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, has been released from a psychiatric hospital after 35 years.
Mr Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981.
Mr Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity but was sent for treatment to a Washington hospital.
In July, a judge ruled that Mr Hinckley, now 61, was not a danger to himself or the public.
Mr Hinckley had already been spending 17 days a month at his mother’s home in Virginia under strict conditions.
Associated Press reported that he had arrived at her home having been freed on Saturday.
He might have actually been out sooner if he’d murdered someone…