After a judges ruling today that will likely shock many, John Hinckley Jr. - the man who shot President Reagan back in 1981 - has been released from a . WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — More than three decades after attempting to assassinate a president and almost succeeding, John Hinckley Jr. is . John Hinckley, Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in a failed assassination attempt, has been in the custody of St. Elizabeth hospital due to . John Hinckley, the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is struggling as he gains more independence following decades of .
