Man With Colorado Ties Who Shot Reagan Permanently Released From Mental Hospital.
The man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 has been granted full time release from a hospital.
John Hinckley Jr. has been in treatment since the shooting at a mental hospital in Washington, D.C.
Hinckley Jr. has ties to Evergreen, Colorado. His family moved there after he graduated from high school in 1973.
The judge says the hospital has an obligation to move patients to out patient care when they are ready.