Johnny Wactor Co-Worker Describes Horrifying Final Moments: “Everything Happened In An Instant”

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In an emotional and disturbing account of the final moments in the life of General Hospital actor Johnny Wactor, the co-worker who was with him when he was shot by a thief provides new details of what she calls the “unimaginable events” of that night. “Everything happened in an instant,” writes Anita Joy in an Instagram message. “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.” Joy writes that she and Wactor, whom she affectionately calls Johnny Wacky, had finished their late shift at a downtown L.A.

bar when, at about 3 a.m. last Saturday, the two were walking to their cars parked nearby. Friends for eight years, Wactor and Joy were “laughing together, walking side by side” when the encountered three people standing by Wactor’s vehicle. “We cautiously approached the men,” she writes, “questioning what they were doing, at first thinking the car was being towed.

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.

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!