Former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed early Saturday morning when he and a friend came across three men apparently trying to steal the catalytic converter from his car.

Los Angeles Police told KTLA that officers responded to an area near Pico Boulevard and Hope Street at about 3:30 a.m. on Saturday and found a man with a gunshot wound. The said he had confronted three men trying to steal the catalytica converter from his vehicle and was shot for his trouble.

Paramedics rushed him to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.

Wactor, 37, was best known as Brando Corbin on the soap opera “General Hospital,” a role he played from 2020 until the character was killed off in 2022, TMZ reported.

Wactor’s first role was in “Army Wives” in 2007, and he also appeared in “Westworld,” “The OA,” “NCIS,” “Station 19,” “Criminal Minds,” and “Hollywood Girl.”

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