John Hinckley Jr, who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981, will play SOLD-OUT show in Brooklyn this summer after serving 35 years in psychiatric hospital

Would-be Ronald Reagan assassin John Hinckley Jr., 66, will play a sold-out Brooklyn concert in July, 40 years after attempting to take the president’s life
The tickets sold out on April 12, with Hinckley tweeting that he was ‘very excited’
After spending 35 years in a psychiatric ward, Hinckley has amassed 800,000 views on his YouTube channel, where he posts original songs and covers
On March 30, 1981, Hinckley shot then-president Reagan, two of his staffers and a policeman in an attempt to ‘impress’ actress Jodie Foster
In 2020, a judge allowed him to display and perform his music – a 1995 civil settlement had banned Hinckley from benefiting from his name or story