Johnny Wactor was shot dead while shielding a female co-worker: brother

“General Hospital” character Johnny Wactor died while shielding a female co-worker from nan equipped robbers who changeable him dormant conscionable for a catalytic converter.

Wactor, 37, was stepping nan unidentified friend to her ain car erstwhile he came crossed nan 3 thieves who’d jacked up his car astatine astir 3:25 a.m. Saturday, his relative Grant told nan Daily Mail.

“We’re Southern, calved and raised, and we would ne'er fto a female locomotion to their car by herself,” nan grieving relative said.

“He came crossed them and he thought his motortruck was being towed. So he said thing to nan guys, like, ‘Hey, are you towing?’

‘General Hospital’ character Johnny Wactor was killed successful downtown Los Angeles. WireImage

“And past erstwhile he turned around, he saw what was happening and he put his coworker down him. And that’s erstwhile they changeable him.”

The character was backing distant and attempting to protect his co-worker erstwhile nan men opened fire, Grant said, citing nan Los Angeles Police Department’s appraisal of nan scene.

The thieves – who constabulary opportunity were each wearing masks – fled nan segment successful a abstracted vehicle. They had not been identified arsenic of Monday morning.

Wactor played Brando Corbin successful 164 episodes of nan long-running soap opera. ABC via Getty Images

“We are wholly devastated,” Wactor’s grandmother, Barbara, told The Daily Mail. “He was conscionable stepping to his car. It’s senseless.”

The actor’s mom, Scarlett Wactor, besides told NBC News really her boy has stepped successful beforehand fo nan co-worker to protect her, calling him “a ray successful a acheronian room.”

“There is simply a immense spread successful each of us, and location is nary fixing that,” she said.

Johnny often picked up other bartending shifts betwixt acting gigs, and was moving later than accustomed that night, his mom said. He near pinch 3 co-workers, pinch 2 of them heading disconnected successful a abstracted guidance earlier Wactor and nan female he was stepping pinch were confronted.