“General Hospital” star Johnny Wactor’s co-worker, who held him as he lay dying, slammed the senseless “coward” who fatally shot the actor in downtown Los Angeles. Anita Joy detailed the horrific tragedy after the pair finished their bartending shift and were walking to their cars at around 3 a.m.
on Saturday. Wactor, 37, died as he shielded Joy from the three armed robbers who gunned him down over his car’s catalytic converter. “I’ve needed to take some time to collect myself and my thoughts,” Joy began her lengthy Instagram post on Wednesday.
“I was with Johnny in his last moments and I’m here to be his voice after such unimaginable events.” “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 and once.
.. but above all, I am here for Johnny’s justice.
” Joy explained that she and Wactor, with whom she had been friends for 8 years, were leaving their bartending shift together and walking to their cars when they noticed someone tampering with his vehicle. “We cautiously approached the men, questioning what they were doing, at first thinking the car was being towed,” she wrote. “We were no threat and 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 said that the actor stood between her and the man that killed him. “As I heard the shot ring into the nig.
