The man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 will be released unconditionally, a federal judge ruled on Sept. 27. John Hinckley Jr., 66, opened fire on Reagan in Washington outside the Hilton Hotel, wounding the president, his press secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent, and a police officer. No one was killed, but Brady was left paralyzed and died in 2014. Hinckley was arrested but found not guilty due to insanity. He was placed into a psychiatric hospital in the nation’s capital. Over the years, conditions of his confinement were loosened, and U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in 2016 ordered him released from the hospital with conditions such as having doctors control his medication. Friedman, a Clinton appointee, found at the time that Hinckley didn’t pose a threat any longer. The decision was condemned by one of Reagan’s daughters. The same judge announced on Sept. 27 that all conditions …
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