Everardo Custodio

Everardo Custodio grew up and lived in Chicago, a young man whose life was rooted in the city’s neighborhoods. Public records and news reporting show he was known in the Logan Square area and that, like many in his generation, his life intersected with both community connections and difficult public moments.

In 2015, when he was in his early twenties, Custodio was widely reported in local media after he was wounded during a widely covered incident on a Logan Square sidewalk. News outlets described that he had been shot by a passerby who intervened after shots were fired; that episode remained part of the public record about his life. Years later, on March 24, 2019, Custodio died in Chicago. Local reporting and public gun-violence tracking sites record his death as occurring on that date; authorities described the death as a shooting.

There are limits to what public sources reveal about Everardo’s daily life, family, work, and friendships. Those limits do not diminish his humanity. Even where records are sparse, it is important to remember that headlines and official reports capture only fragments of a person’s story. Everardo was a real person with relationships and a life in Chicago — not merely the line items of news coverage. His loss was felt by those who knew him, and this page seeks to hold a quiet space for that human presence.

If family or friends wish to add personal remembrances, photos, dates, or details that better reflect Everardo’s life — the people, places, and small everyday things that mattered to him — those additions will help this remembrance fuller and truer to who he was. For now, this account preserves what reliable public records disclose while centering Everardo as a person whose life belonged to family, friends and his community.