General Hospital's Johnny Wactor's Co-Worker Details His Final Moments After Being Fatally Shot in Attempted Robbery

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Johnny Wactor‘s co-worker is speaking out. The General Hospital star was fatally shot at the age of 37 on May 25 when confronted by three armed car thieves attempting to steal his catalytic converter from his car. Anita Joy had been working alongside the soap star at Level 8 in Downtown Los Angeles before the incident, and was by his side when he died. Keep reading to find out more… “I’ve needed to take some time to collect myself and my thoughts,” she wrote on Instagram. “I was with Johnny in his last moments and I’m here to be his voice after such unimaginable events,” she added. “He was killed senselessly by a coward who reacted without care of the gorgeous life he was taking.

So I’m angry, I’m sad and I’m all of the feelings at once… but above all, I am here for Johnny‘s justice.” “My friend of 8 years went from laughing together, working side by side, leaving our bartending shift and walking to our cars, to him dying in my arms in the streets of DTLA in the dark hours of 3 a.m.,” she wrote, stating that the “basic details of this horrific story” comes down “to a few criminals trying to steal a car part.” “Everything happened in an instant.

I’ve come to describe it as a glass of water that gets tipped over and you’re scrambling to grab it and save it from spilling out completely but it just runs through your fingertips and is gone.” She explained how the two had “cautiously approached the men, questioning what they were doing, at first thinking the car was being towed” and that they “were no threat.” “Johnny kept his cool as he always did, simply stating that it was his car and for them to leave.

Hands open to his sides in peace. Johnny was between me and the man who shot him – as I heard the shot ring into the