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Reagan shooter John Hinckley Jr released from rehabilitation in mental hospital

Published Sun, Sep 11, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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THE man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago is going home - this time it seems, for good.

John Hinckley Jr was released from St Elizabeths Hospital on Saturday morning, the culmination of his decades-long rehabilitation in a DC mental hospital.

A federal judge ordered his release in July, finding that the would-be assassin no longer posed a danger to others after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of the president and three others outsid…

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