Man killed worker at Original Maxwell Street after claiming he was disrespected and would ‘shoot up the place,’ prosecutors say

Original Maxwell Street near Independence Boulevard and I-290 in Lawndale. (Google Maps)

A customer at a West Side hotdog stand claimed he was disrespected by an employee before returning with a gun and killing the worker, Cook County prosecutors said in court Thursday.

Joseph Freeman got into an argument with the worker, Jose Adalid Celis Gonzalez, at the Original Maxwell Street restaurant last Friday and said he’d come back with a gun and “shoot up the place,” prosecutors said.