Renowned actor, Johnny Wactor, has been shot dead on Saturday in Los Angeles.
Wactor who died at the age of 37 during a robbery is a long-time veteran of the TV soap, General Hospital.
According to Dailymail Wactor reportedly mistook masked thieves stealing his car for tow truck drivers and intervened before they opened fire,
Wactor was said to be leaving his side job at a rooftop bar with a female colleague at around 3:25 am Saturday in the area of West Pico Boulevard and South Hope Street, when he saw the three men, believing he was being towed.
In reaction to the incident, the Los Angeles police department said one of the three men, all of whom were wearing masks, shot Wactor before fleeing in a separate vehicle.
Paramedics got to the scene shortly after and took him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The masked suspects remain at large and have yet to be identified or described.
