The guard who closed Reagan from a bullet died

In the US, one of the guards of 40 US President Ronald Reagan died. According to Associated Press, Jerry Parr passed away in Washington at the age of 85.

Parr helped the head of state to take refuge in a limousine during an assassination attempt on his life committed on March 30 on 1981. In the US Secret Service, Parr has worked since 1962 of the year.

30 March 1981, John Hinkley shot Reagan near the Washington Hilton. In addition to Reagan, three were injured: presidential spokesman James Brady (died 2014), a police officer and Secret Service officer Timothy McCarthy. The head of state (a bullet hit him, ricocheted from a limousine) was hospitalized, he was discharged from the hospital on April 11. He became the first American president to survive an attempted assassination attempt with firearms.

At trial, the attempted one explained his actions with a desire to impress the actress Jodie Foster, whom he, in his own words, had loved without a response. Hinkley was declared insane and placed in the St. Petersburg Psychiatric Clinic. Elizabeth's for compulsory treatment.