Co-worker of Soap Actor remembers him passing away in her arms after being shot in L.A.: ‘He bravely fought to cling on
The witness to soap actor Johnny Wactor’s tragic murder in Los Angeles, killed while trying to stop thieves, bravely recounts the harrowing incident. Anita Joy, Wactor’s co-worker, shares the heartbreaking moments leading to his senseless death and vows to seek justice for him. The post sheds light on the shocking events that unfolded in the early hours of May 25. The witness to soap actor Johnny Wactor’s tragic murder in Los Angeles, killed while trying to stop thieves, bravely recounts the harrowing incident. Anita Joy, Wactor’s co-worker, shares the heartbreaking moments leading to his senseless death and vows to seek justice for him. The post sheds light on the shocking events that unfolded in the early hours of May 25.
The lone witness to the murder of soap actor Johnny Wactor, who was killed over Memorial Day weekend while trying to stop thieves from stealing his catalytic convertor on the streets of Los Angeles, is speaking out about what happened.
Wactor’s co-worker Anita Joy was walking with him when they came upon a group of individuals near his car. Joy said at first they didn’t suspect a crime was taking place, but wondered if the car was being towed. The “General Hostpital” star was shot and died of his injuries in the early morning hours of May 25. He was 37.
“I’ve needed to take some time to collect myself and my thoughts,” Joy wrote in a lengthy Instagram post shared on Wednesday, May 29.
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“I was with Johnny in his last moments and I’m here to be his voice after such unimaginable events,” she went on. “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.,” Joy continued, adding 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,” the post continued. “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 pair had “cautiously approached the men, questioning what they were doing, at first thinking the car was being towed” and believing 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,” Joy added in the post. “Johnny was between me and the man who shot him – as I heard the shot ring into the night, he forcefully tumbled back into my arms and as I grabbed for him, I shouted, ‘Hunny you ok?!’ And he only responded, ‘Nope! Shot!’”
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Joy said Wactor fell “onto the street,” so she put her “legs under him and tried to hold his body up while screaming for help and screaming at him to stay with me.”
A security guard from the bar came and called 911 plus performed CPR on Wactor, but Joy said he was unable to “stop the bleeding.” She wrote the shot was “too close range” and “too extreme of a wound for him to survive it, but my God he fought to stay.”
Joy concluded by saying she’s “utterly heartbroken and so very angry.”
“My only peace is that I was with him and this didn’t happen to him alone – my only other peace will be seeing these awful men brought to justice,” she said.
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