A man who attempted to assassinate former US President Ronald Reagan in 1981 is set to be released from the psychiatric facility he was being held at.
John Hinckley Jnr shot Reagan and three others in the assasination attempt outside a Washington Hotel in March 1981. The President was shot in the lung but survived, whilst his press secretary James Brady was shot in the head, suffering severe brain damage and had to use a wheelchair till his death in 2014.
John Hinkcley Jnr – Man Who Attempted To Assasinate Former US President Ronald Reagan To Be Freed