Mike Buchanan, whose coverage of crime in the D.C. region included some of the biggest stories over three decades, has died. He was 78 years old.
Buchanan’s daughter said he had a heart attack at his home in Bethany Beach, Delaware, on Thursday.
Buchanan first worked as a print reporter. He then worked in television at WUSA9 and in radio at WTOP.
It was Buchanan who was the first to report that the motive behind John Hinckley Jr.’s assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981 was to impress actress Jodie Foster.
