Attempted Presidential Assassin Fully Released After 41 Years in Custody

Police and Secret Service agents reacting during the assassination attempt on then US president Ronald Reagan, after a conference outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1981. (just behind the car). Reagan was hit in the chest and was hospitalized for 12 days. Hinckley was aquitted 21 June 1982 after a jury found him mentally unstable. Mike Evens/AFP/Getty Images

John Hinckley Jr., who tried to shoot and kill former President Ronald Reagan 41 years ago, was fully released from court oversight on Wednesday.

“After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, FREEDOM AT LAST!!!,” the would-be presidential assassin wrote on Twitter at around 12 p.m.