On March 30 , 1981 , Ronald Wilson Reagan , the 40th President of the United States , was shot Use_firearm and wounded Bodily_harm by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington , D.C. , as he was returning Arriving to his limousine after a speaking Expressing_publicly engagement Participation at the Washington Hilton Hotel .

Reagan was seriously wounded Bodily_harm by a bullet that ricocheted Motion off the side of the presidential limousine and hit Attack him in the left underarm , breaking Destroying a rib , puncturing Bodily_harm a lung , and causing Causation serious internal bleeding Bodily_harm .