WORLD TONIGHT AFTER FORMER GENERAL HOSPITAL STAR JOHNNY WALKER WAS SHOT AND KILLED, LACKEY CAME UPON A GROUP OF THIEVES STEALING HIS CATALYTIC CONVERTER. ONE OF THEM PULLED OUT A GUN AND OPENED FIRE. >> TONIGHT, WE ARE HEARING FROM HIS FORMER COSTARS AND FRIENDS. EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER LEANNE SUTER LIVE OUTSIDE THE DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES BAR WHERE HE WAS WORKING. LIANE >> FROM COWORKERS HERE AT LEVEL EIGHT TO THOSE WHO KNEW JOHNNY IN HOLLYWOOD, THEY ALL USE THE SAME WORDS, SAYING HE WAS A GOOD GUY, SO KIND AND CARING. EVERYONE WHO KNEW HIM, STUNNED BY HIS SENSELESS MURDER. >> WE WERE TOGETHER. SASHA I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN JUST YOU AND ME. >> ACTOR JOHNNY WALKER WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE AS BRANDO CORBIN ON GENERAL HOSPITAL. HIS TV WIFE, ACTRESS SOFIA MATSIN, POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA MY HEART IS SO UTTERLY BROKEN. JOHNNY WAS THE ABSOLUTE BEST, SO GENUINE, SO CARING, INCREDIBLY HARD WORKING AND HUMBLE. THE 37 YEAR OLD WAS SHOT EARLY SATURDAY MORNING IN DOWNTOWN L.A. WHEN HE CAME UPON THREE SUSPECTS, WHOM POLICE SAY WERE TRYING TO STEAL HIS CAR'S CATALYTIC CONVERTER. PARAMEDICS TRIED DESPERATELY TO SAVE HIS LIFE, BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. IT HAPPENED AT HOPE AND PICO. THE ACTOR'S MOTHER, SAYS HER SON DIDN'T TRY TO STOP THE THIEVES. BUT ONE OF THEM SHOT HIM ANYWAY. GENERAL HOSPITAL RELEASING A STATEMENT SAYING THE ENTIRE GENERAL HOSPITAL FAMILY IS HEARTBROKEN TO HEAR OF JOHNNY WALKER'S UNTIMELY PASSING. HE WAS TRULY ONE OF A KIND AND A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH. EACH AND EVERY DAY. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO HIS LOVED ONES DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME. >> HEY, GOOD TO SEE YOU. SPINELLI RIGHT? >> ACTOR APPEARED IN NEARLY 200 EPISODES OF THE POPULAR SOAP. HIS OTHER ACTING CREDITS INCLUDE NCIS AND CRIMINAL MINDS. THE 37 YEAR OLD WORKED AT LEVEL EIGHT IN DOWNTOWN LA AS A BARTENDER AT THE POPULAR ROOFTOP BAR. WALKER'S MOTHER SAYS HE WAS WALKING WITH A COWORKER TO HIS CAR WHEN HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED. ALL WHO KNEW THE 37 YEAR OLD DESCRIBE HIM AS EXTREMELY GENEROUS AND CARING. HIS FELLOW GENERAL HOSPITAL ACTORS TAKING TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO EXPRESS THEIR HEARTBREAK, JON LINDSTROM SAYING IN PART, JOHNNY WAS ONE OF THOSE RARE YOUNG MEN IN THE BUSINESS WHO ARE KIND, UNASSUMING, HUMBLE AND ALWAYS THOUGHT ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE. KIRSTEN STORMS WRITING I JUST CANNOT BELIEVE THAT HIS LIFE WAS STOLEN FROM HIM THE WAY IT WAS. MY HEART HURTS. YES, SO MANY DEVASTATED BY THAT SENSELESS MURDER. ACTORS MANAGER ALSO SAYING THAT JOHNNY PURSUED HIS DREAMS AND ACHIEVED THEM ALL WHILE REMAINING A GOOD HUMAN BEING, CARING FOR ALL OTHERS
