An aspiring actor who earlier this week broadcast his suicide in North Hollywood on Facebook Live has been identified as a Canyon Country resident, authorities said Wednesday.

Frederick Jay Bowdy was 33 years old, according to Craig Harvey, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner.

“We believe it to be a gunshot wound to the head,” Harvey said.

The coroner’s office received a call from the Los Angeles Police Department at 6:33 a.m. Monday about Bowdy being found in a car parked on Cumpston Street just east of Fulcher Avenue, Harvey said.

Bowdy had alerted his Facebook followers of his plans, prompting his family in Texas to contact the LAPD, which tried to intervene, according to published reports.

Police could not find him in time to prevent his death.

Bowdy shot himself in the head, streaming the act in real time on Facebook Live, said his manager, said Sean Kurzweil, owner of Kurzweil Talent Management, who represented the actor.

He leaves behind his wife Whitney and six kids, he said. Two are from a previous marriage.

Bowdy was arrested last Thursday at his Canyon Country apartment complex after his female companion went to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station and filed a domestic violence complaint, said Sgt. Brian Shreeves, one of the arresting officers. He would not release the woman’s name.

Authorities were also looking into a possible sexual assault, he said.

Bowdy called Kurzweil from jail Thursday and left his name on a message, then called again Friday and said he was out and everything was taken care of, Kurzweil said. They then texted each other over the weekend about upcoming auditions.

But early Monday morning he got a chilling call. It was someone from Texas saying that his client was going to take his life on Facebook Live.

Kurzweil got on the feed.

“He referenced a cousin who had once molested him and he had not gotten over that. There were some goodbye messages to his kids and that he just could not handle what was going on anymore,” said Kurzweil. “He was crying and praying. The gun jammed three times and then finally went off. It sounded like water was running but it wasn’t.”

The inside of the car was dark and the screen was almost black so there was no clear image, he said. But at one point Bowdy was in silhouette and it looked like he was holding a pistol to his head.

LAPD officers had been looking for Bowdy and they almost made it.

Shortly after the shot, officers were heard breaking the car window and discussing how to remove the gun from Bowdy’s hand, said Kurzweil.

Bowdy had been Kurzweil’s client for about a year. His biggest role so far is in the movie “Prepper,” in which he plays James McAllister, a Texas school teacher living the typical suburban life until realizing that it wouldn’t take much for society to collapse.

Bowdy is also a former semi-pro basketball player, and last summer was in Russia to film “Going Vertical” in which he plays an American basketball player.

His suicide stunned Kurzweil.

“He was always really positive. He had been compared with Will Smith. He definitely had that outgoing charm. He could light up a room and he never had a negative thing to say about people. And his family meant everything to him,” he said. “Everyone is nonplussed by this thing that came out of nowhere.”

As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, nearly 400 people left comments — mostly condolences — on the last Facebook post that can now be seen on Bowdy’s personal page. He maintained another Facebook account that focused on his acting career.

Bowdy’s Facebook suicide was the second this week to be broadcast on the social network.

On Tuesday, the Miami Herald reported that Nakia Venant, 14, was broadcasting on Facebook Live from the bathroom of her Miami Gardens foster home for two hours, eventually fashioning a homemade noose from her scarf.

She killed herself overnight Sunday while live-streaming the event.

Facebook, in an email, said the videos were taken down.

“We take our responsibility to keep people safe on Facebook very seriously and work with organizations around the world to provide assistance for people in distress,” the company said. “Our Community Standards regulate what kinds of content can be shared on Facebook. Our teams work around the clock to review content that is being reported by users, and we have systems in place to ensure that time-sensitive content is dealt with quickly.”