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.
Authorities tried to arrest Teague for a criminal assault order related to an incident on Feb. 2 before the deadly encounter, police said.
Police chased Teague for more than an hour, and in an attempt to escape, Teague drove the wrong way on I-270 and eventually hit two other vehicles from the front within minutes.
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 attacked by NYPD police on Friday afternoon with an AK-47 assault rifle and a gas mask inside Times Square subway station.
Saadiq, a resident of Ohio, was arrested without incident at about 12:30 a.m. at the subway station of the A, C and E lines. He was not immediately charged.
Sources say the teenager sat down and loaded his cellphone into the station with the weapon outside him in sight, when uniformed police 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 was also involved in the investigation into the matter, sources said.
Woods said he had lost contact with Saadiq in recent years, but called him a good kid who liked to play football.
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?”
Additional reporting by Joe Marino and Larry Celona