{"id":28517,"date":"2016-09-11T02:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T02:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/would-be-reagan-assassin-john-hinckley-released\/"},"modified":"2016-09-11T02:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T02:23:34","slug":"would-be-reagan-assassin-john-hinckley-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/would-be-reagan-assassin-john-hinckley-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Would-be Reagan assassin John Hinckley released"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Man who tried to kill US president in 1981 released from psychiatric hospital in Washington following court order.}<\/p>\n

John Hinckley, the man who attempted to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago, has been freed from a psychiatric hospital in the US capital Washington DC, according to national media reports.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for the District of Columbia’s Department of Mental Health said early on Saturday that all patients scheduled to leave St. Elizabeths Hospital had been discharged.<\/p>\n

Sixty-one-year-old Hinckley was among those scheduled for discharge, reports said.<\/p>\n

The AP news agency said that a rental car pulled into the driveway of the Hinckley home in Williamsburg in Virginia at about 2:30pm.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported that Hinckley was officially released from St. Elizabeth’s, when he had been scheduled to be freed.<\/p>\n

A federal judge ruled in late July that Hinckley is not a danger to himself or the public and can live full-time at his mother’s home in Williamsburg.<\/p>\n

Hinckley had already been visiting Williamsburg for long stretches at a time and preparing for the full-time transition.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

However, his longtime lawyer Barry Levine said he believed Hinckley will be a “citizen about whom we can all be proud”.<\/p>\n

As a 25-year-old college dropout, Hinckley had grown fixated upon actress Jodie Foster and the Martin Scorsese film “Taxi Driver,” in which she played a teenage prostitute.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the film’s main character, who plots to kill a presidential candidate, Hinckley opened fire on Reagan outside a Washington DC hotel on March 30, 1981, in a misguided effort to win Foster’s affections.<\/p>\n

The shooting, which disabled James Brady, the White House Press Secretary of the time, left its mark in a number of ways. The shooting helped launch the modern gun control movement, and a 1993 bill named after him imposed background checks and a waiting period.<\/p>\n

The Reagan family issued a statement in July strongly opposing Hinckley’s release. Foster has declined to comment on Hinckley since 1981.<\/p>\n

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