Reagan's would-be assassin now Virginia suburb's infamous new resident
Joe Mann has lived in the exclusive Kingsmill gated community in Williamsburg, Virginia, for more than 30 years and he's not shy about voicing his opinion when it comes to his newest neighbor: would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley.
"I think it's foolhardy; I think it's not justifiable," Mann, 75, a retired executive, hours after a federal judge ruled that Hinckley could be released from a psychiatric hospital to live with his 90-year-old mother at Kingsmill.
"If you look at it logically as a risk-reward ratio, the reward is only to him. The risk is to everyone else."
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said in Washington Hinckley, who wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981 in an assassination attempt born of his obsession with actress Jodie Foster, no longer posed a danger to the public now that his psychosis was in remission.
Williamsburg, with a population of approximately 15,000, is perhaps best known for the historical tourism site Colonial Williamsburg. The city is home to the College of William & Mary, one of the oldest schools in the United States.
Hinckley, now 61, has gotten to know Williamsburg over the past decade, since Friedman began...