WASHINGTON -- The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan has been released from a Washington mental hospital for good, more than 35 years after the shooting. A spokeswoman for the ...

A federal judge has approved the unconditional release of John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in a failed assassination attempt in 1981. According to NPR and ...

John Hinckley Jr, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has denounced the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. “Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance,” Hinckley wrote on X on ...

Washington lawyer Barry Levine is deeply concerned about his client's image. Levine, the lawyer representing John Hinckley Jr. in his quest for greater freedom, today criticized prosecutors in ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded by John Hinckley Jr. outside a Washington, D.C.

John Hinckley Jr. following his arraignment in 1981. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images) Almost no one had ever heard of John Hinckley Jr. before he tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan over a ...

NORFOLK — The man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan will soon undergo a new round of psychological tests before a court decides if he can live under fewer restrictions in a gated ...