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John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was released Wednesday, ending decades of court-imposed restrictions and supervision.
Hinckley, 67, was granted unconditional release last September and set to be freed of restrictions on Wednesday after U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman ruled that he was “no longer a danger to himself or others” earlier this month.
“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!” Hinckley tweeted.
REAGAN SHOOTER JOHN HINCKLEY WINS UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE
Hinckley was set to perform a concert in Brooklyn, New York, but the venue announced Wednesday that it was canceling the event.
“We do believe that ex-cons and people with mental illness can recover, and that we should want them to maintain hope that they can better themselves, … [but] we don’t see the need to allow someone who did something awful to skip the line and play even our middle size independent community stage — and in doing so put our vulnerable communities at risk,” the Market Hotel wrote on Instagram.
Hinckley, who was acquitted by way of insanity, spent more than 30 years at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. He was released from the psychiatric hospital in 2016 and moved in with his mother in Williamsburg, Virginia. He said in 2018 that he was allowed to move out of his mother’s home but only within a 75-mile radius of Williamsburg.
“He’s been scrutinized. He’s passed every test. He’s no longer a danger to himself or others,” said Friedman at a hearing earlier this month, adding that Hinckley has shown no signs of mental illness since the 1980s.
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In addition to Reagan, Hinckley shot and wounded Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, police officer Thomas Delahanty, and White House press secretary James Brady on March 30, 1981. Brady was partially paralyzed as a result of the shooting.
