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Johnny Wactor‘s co-worker Anita Joy is speaking out. The General Hospital star, who 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, was remembered by his 35-year-old co-worker, who was there when it happened. Anita 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 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!’ ” She recalled him falling “onto the street,” and she pushed her “legs under him and tried to hold his body up while screaming for help and screaming at him to stay with me.” She said a security guard named Bryan, who also worked at the club, came by and called 911 before trying to perform CPR on the actor. She tied her denim jacket around her friend to try and “stop the bleeding,” but “it was too close range” and “too extreme of a wound for him to survive it, but my god he fought to stay.” Anita wrote that she feels “utterly heartbroken and so very angry,” adding, “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.” “No matter how well you knew him, he treated everyone like he truly cared about you,” she wrote. “It just filled your heart to be around him. He called me ‘Anita Bonita‘ and I hope the stamp of his voice saying that every time I saw him never leaves my memory.” A GoFundMe page set up to help his family with funeral and travel expenses. “If you can contribute to his family, please do – they are on the other side of the country and it’s going to be a lot on them emotionally and financially to get Johnny home to them,” she added. His cause of death was officially ruled one day ago. Our thoughts are with Johnny Wactor‘s loved ones at this incredibly difficult time.
