John Hinckley Jr. to be released

Police and Secret Service agents react during the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan after a conference at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. Reagan was hit in the chest by one of six shots fired by John Hinckley Jr., who also wounded press secretary James Brady (just behind the car) and two law enforcement officers. Reagan was hospitalized for 12 days.

Law enforcement and others react after the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, by John Hinckley Jr. outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

John Hinckley Jr. is wrestled to the ground March 30, 1981, after he slipped in behind cameramen and repeatedly fired a handgun, hitting President Ronald Reagan, press secretary James Brady, police Officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy.

Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr, right, shoves President Ronald Reagan into the president’s limousine after Reagan was shot outside a Washington hotel March 30, 1981.

Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy, foreground, Washington, D.C., police Officer Thomas Delehanty, center, and presidential press secretary James Brady, background, lie wounded on a street outside a Washington hotel after shots were fired at President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. McCarthy threw himself into the line of fire, and Delehanty, on crowd control duty, was standing close to the gunman, John Hinckley Jr., who pushed a pistol through a cluster of bystanders and fired six shots.

Law enforcement officers with guns drawn rush toward John Hinckley Jr., not shown, after he fired a gun at President Ronald Reagan, hitting the president once in the chest and wounding three others outside a hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981.

John Hinckley Jr. is escorted by police in Washington, D.C., following his arrest after shooting and seriously wounding President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.

President Ronald Reagan stands next to his wife, first lady Nancy Reagan, inside George Washington University Hospital on April 3, 1981, four days after an attempt was made on his life.

Former White House press secretary James Brady, in wheelchair, his son Scott Brady, fourth from left, and wife Sarah Brady, center, visit the press briefing room that bears his name in the West Wing of the White House with current press secretary Jay Carney, third from left, on March 30, 2011, in Washington, D.C. Brady was visiting the White House on the 30th anniversary of the day he was shot in the head by John Hinckley Jr., during Hinckley’s attempt to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981.

John Hinckley Jr. is escorted from federal court in Washington, D.C., on April 13, 1987. Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981, asked U.S. District Judge June Green to be allowed to spend 12 hours a month outside a mental hospital visiting his family without hospital staff accompanying him.

John Hinckley Jr., left, arrives at federal court in Washington, D.C., guarded by a U.S. marshal on Sept. 2, 2003. A federal judge said Dec. 17, 2003, that Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, could have unsupervised visits with his parents away from the mental hospital where he has lived for more than two decades.

John Hinckley Jr. arrives at federal court Nov. 19, 2003, in Washington, D.C. Hinckley, who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, asked U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman to let him leave Washington’s St. Elizabeths Hospital unescorted and visit his parents at their home.

John Hinckley Jr. gets into his mother’s car in front of a recreation center in Williamsburg, Va., on March 19, 2015.

The home of John Hinckley Jr.’s mother in the Kingsmill resort in Williamsburg, Va., on March 18, 2015. A judge decided that Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live with his mother full time in Virginia.