A march demanding justice was held on Wednesday in honor of slain “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor, who was shot and killed while trying to stop catalytic converter thieves last month.
Wactor, 37, was leaving his job as a bartender around 3:25 a.m. on May 25 when he noticed three suspects who had raised his car with a floor jack near Hope Street and Pico Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The suspects were in the process of stealing Wactor’s vehicle’s catalytic converter when “without provocation, [he] was shot by one of the individuals,” LAPD added.
He was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
Friends and family of the late actor, who was known for his role as Brando Corbin in the popular soap opera “General Hospital” and appeared in “Westworld” and “Criminal Minds,” held a rally in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday morning and marched towards city hall, calling for local leaders to take action against the violence.
The march began near the intersection of Hope and Pico, where Wactor was killed, and proceeded to Los Angeles City Hall. Video from Sky5 shows dozens of demonstrators making their way down Main Street.
KTLA 5’s Kimberly Cheng spoke to the late actor’s younger brother Grant, who flew in from Charleston, South Carolina, during Wednesday morning’s rally.
“The message is pretty obvious…they want safe streets and justice,” he said. “I don’t live here, so I didn’t realize how bad the situation already was for any of this to even happen…apparently this has been a problem that has needed to be fixed for a while, so someone has to fix it.”
When asked what law enforcement can do to bring justice to Johnny and the Wactor family, Grant had a simple response.
“[Police need to] continue to do what they are doing…and use every resource at their disposal,” he told Cheng.
The suspects in Johnny Wactor’s murder have yet to be apprehended. According to investigators, the three suspects were wearing all-dark clothing and driving a dark-colored sedan.
