John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate ex- United States President, Ronald Reagan, is to be released from a psychiatric hospital next month after 35 years.
Mr. Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981, the BBC reports.
Mr. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity but was sent for treatment at a Washington hospital.
He has been spending 17 days a month at his mother’s home in Virginia under strict conditions.