John Hinckley Jr., who tried to shoot and killed former President Ronald Reagan 41 years ago, was fully released from court oversight on Wednesday.
“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!,” the would-be presidential assassin wrote on Twitter at around 12 p.m.
It was long expected that Hinckley would be released. U.S. District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington previously said Hinckley would be freed on June 15 if he continued to remain mentally stable in the Virginia town where he has lived for several years.
In the early 1980s, Hinckley was acquitted by a jury by reason of insanity but has spent decades in a Washington-area mental hospital….