Judge: Reagan shooter can leave hospital to live in Virginia
By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — More
than 35 years after he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in
an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster, John Hinckley Jr. will be
allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full time with
his mother in Virginia, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Judge Paul Friedman
wrote in a 14-page ruling that Hinckley — who for more than a decade
has been spending increased time outside the hospital and now lives 17
days a month at his mother's home — is ready to live full time in the
community. Friedman granted Hinckley leave from the hospital starting no
sooner than Aug. 5.
Doctors have said for many years that Hinckley, 61, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting, is no longer plagued by the mental illness that drove him to shoot Reagan. Three others were wounded in the March 30, 1981, shooting outside a Washington hotel, including Reagan's press secretary, James Brady, who suffered debilitating injuries and died in 2014. His death was later ruled a homicide.
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Doctors have said for many years that Hinckley, 61, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting, is no longer plagued by the mental illness that drove him to shoot Reagan. Three others were wounded in the March 30, 1981, shooting outside a Washington hotel, including Reagan's press secretary, James Brady, who suffered debilitating injuries and died in 2014. His death was later ruled a homicide.
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