Would-Be Reagan Assassin John Hinckley Jr. Is Opening A Bookstore

John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot then-President Ronald Reagan in an unsuccessful assassination attempt in 1981, will be opening up a music store in Virginia.

In an X post Monday, Hinckley announced that he will be opening the store in Williamsburg, Virginia. He has not yet decided on a name for the business, though he expects it to be opening “in a week or two.”

Hinckley has attempted to pursue a music career since his release in 2022. He started a YouTube channel to stream releases in 2020, when he was still on home confinement at his mother’s house in Williamsburg. The would-be-assassin had previously spent the better part of three decades at St. Elizabeths Hospital after he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982.

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Hinckley’s YouTube channel currently boasts more than 40,000 subscribers, and he has performed multiple concerts around the country since his release.

One of Hinckley’s YouTube uploads from 2020

Hinckley shot Reagan as part of a deranged fantasy that doing so would gain him favor with then 18-year-old movie star Jodie Foster. He became obsessed with Jodie after watching the 1976 Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver, in which she played the role of a prostitute named Iris Steensma. Hinckley wrote a letter to Foster a day before he shot Reagan and multiple others with his revolver outside a Washington Hotel. “Jodie, I’m asking you to please look into your heart and at least give me the chance with this historical deed to gain your respect and love,” reads a section of the letter.

In addition to President Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady, and D.C. Metropolitan police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy were also shot in the 1981 assassination attempt. Brady was left disabled from the shooting and passed away 33 years later.

When Brady died, his death was listed as a homicide, as complications from his wounds were found to have contributed to his death. The U.D. Department of Justice opted not to pursue charges against Hinckley in 2015, citing his insanity plea.

After his full release in 2022, Hinckley apologized to the Brady, Reagan and Foster families, as well as everyone else who was wounded in the attempt and their families, in an interview with CBS Mornings.

“I feel badly for all of them. I have true remorse for what I did,” Hinckley said. “I know that they probably can’t forgive me now, but I just want them to know that I am sorry for what I did.”