General Hospital finally revealed who shot Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison) — but does he know the identity of the assailant?
“There is so much left to unfold,” General Hospital head writer Chris Van Etten teased to Soap Opera Digest in January 2026. “Revealing who shot Drew is, I think, the end of chapter one or chapter two, depending on how you’re constructing it.”
To understand what happened, let’s take a trip back to September 2025 when a mysterious figure dressed in black shot Drew in a surprising twist — but he did not die. Fans started to theorize who could have done it and, quite literally, everyone’s name was thrown into the mix.
“What we didn’t want to do was trick the audience,” Van Etten explained in the same interview. “The only way that a good mystery works is if you give the audience all the information and allow them to draw conclusions, over the course of the time.”
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So who did it? There is a definitive answer, but if you ask the writers, it doesn’t all hinge on just one person.
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Who Shot Drew on ‘General Hospital’?
Willow Tait Cain (Katelyn MacMullen) is on trial for shooting her husband, Drew. Despite denying her involvement, a January 2026 episode revealed that she is actually the one who committed the crime.
“So those who thought it was Willow at the start and continue to think so will be rewarded,” Van Etten added in his Soap Opera Digest interview.
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One major clue helped make the reveal. Trina (Tabyana Ali) and Kai (Jens Austin Astrup) happened to be at Willow’s house the night of the shooting and heard a specific ringtone go off at the time of the crime. After Willow took the stand and she left the courthouse, her phone rang — and it was the same ringtone.
“Virtually from the very start, we wanted there to be one clue that would eventually lead back to Willow,” Van Etten explained, noting that “only a few” viewers caught on to the ringtone. However, it started to become a major clue.
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“It was there from the very start, and we knew from the very start that we wanted to have that piece of evidence and to put Trina and Kai in a position to know it, but not realize that they knew anything until almost the close,” he added.
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According to the show’s head writers, this story line will go on, especially now that Trina and Kai know the truth.
“They need to decide who they can go to with this information. But they are also themselves in jeopardy because they were in the house that night,” fellow General Hospital writer Elizabeth Korte added in the same Soap Opera Digest interview. “It’s not as if they are not at least culpable for not coming forward before now. So, what decision do they make? They’ve got to turn to somebody, but who do they go to?”
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