The father of the teenager with an AK-47 assault rifle in a Times Square subway station was a criminal who was killed in a shootout with Ohio police last month.
Andrew Teague, 43, was shot dead by authorities in Columbus, Ohio, on March 5 after a wild pursuit of Interstate 270.
Police are trying to arrest Teague on an assault order related to an incident on February 2nd.
Police pursued Teague for more than an hour. While fleeing, on the I-270, Teague drove the wrong way and within two minutes hit two vehicles from the front.
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Chief Deputy Jim Gilbert of the sheriff at Franklin County said Teague then got out of the vehicle and exchanged shots with a Columbus police officer and a deputy, WBNS-TV reported.
Teague – who had a long rap record, including arrests for possession of weapons, domestic violence, housebreaking and drug dealing – was killed during the shootout. Investigators found a gun at the scene.
HK Woods, Teague’s cousin, told The Post by telephone that he had problems with his parole officer and that this had driven him to the edge.
“He went out the only way he could,” Woods said.
The man’s 18-year-old son, identified by New York City law enforcement as Saadiq Teague, was arrested by the NYPD on Friday afternoon with an AK-47 assault rifle and gas mask in Times Square subway station.
Saadiq, an Ohio resident, was arrested without incident at about 12:30 a.m. at the station’s interface from the A, C and E lines. He was not immediately charged.
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According to sources, the teenager sat down and his cellphone with the weapon visibly charged outside him when uniformed transmitters spotted him.
The AK-47 was unloaded, but the teenager reportedly had a fully loaded magazine in his backpack, along with the gas mask.
Saadiq told police he believes it is an armed gun with the ammunition stored separately in New York City, a high-ranking police source said.
The FBI is involved in the investigation, sources said.
Woods said he had lost contact with Saadiq in recent years, but called him a good kid who liked to play football.
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An Ohio man who identified himself as Saadiq’s uncle was stunned by the news on Friday.
“How the hell did he get to New York?” asked family member Rennell Mahone during a telephone conversation with The Post before asking, “Did he have a gas mask in the subway station?”
This story first appears in the New York Post.