American actor Johnny Wactor was killed after being shot while trying to protect one of his colleagues from thieves. Wactor, 37 years old, had been out late with some work colleagues, and when they parted ways, he decided to accompany a colleague to her car. During this, he noticed a group of thieves gathered around his vehicle and initially thought they were traffic police immobilizing it for a violation.
When he asked them what they were doing, he was taken by surprise as the masked thieves brandished their weapons. He immediately stepped in front of his colleague to shield her from gunfire, which ultimately resulted in his death. Johnny Wactor's mother revealed that her son, who played a lead role in the series "General Hospital," had recently started an additional job at a café in Los Angeles and was leaving work early Saturday morning when the incident occurred.