Gustavo Adolfo Zeledon, 59

Aug. 28, 2019

Gustavo Adolfo Zeledon, a 59-year-old Latino male, died Saturday, Aug. 17, after sustaining blunt force trauma near the 800 block of East 5th Street in Downtown, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

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Hello, I have know Gustavo Zeledon, DOB 12-1-1959, since the day before we started first grade which was when he arrived to Los Ángeles from San José, Costa Rica. We were in the same classroom from first to fifth grade, it was a catholic school and Gustavo went to a catholic high school as well. Our parents were friends since they all grew up in Costa Rica.
Gustavo is survived by his mother Maria. She had brought Gustavo to the United States for a better life and made sacrifices to send Gustavo to private schools.
Gustavo had such a bright future as a young man, he always wanted to be a boxer. Gustavo was in the army, but it didn’t work for him. Gustavo married a beautiful woman and they had a daughter who have both become estranged from him.
Over the last decade Gustavo had been a live-in caregiver to an elderly man in Alhambra. The man passed away in 2019 and left Gustavo with nowhere to go.
It is with great sadness I say goodbye to a childhood friend.

Evelyn

— Evelyn Vanderpool Aug. 30, 2019 at 9:56 a.m.