Gun-tote twist
Father of subway AK-47 teen a cop-slay victim
Chilling new details emerged Saturday about the teen charged with toting this AK-47 assault rifle into a Times Square subway station — including his apparent disdain for the Big Apple and the disturbing fact that his father died last month in a shootout with Ohio police.
Minutes before cops say they found Saadiq Teague sitting in the busy station with the 3-foot-long weapon at his side on Friday afternoon, the 18-year-old was raging about Gotham on Instagram.
Midway through an unsettling video he posted, what looks like a disassembled long gun appears to peek from Teague’s backpack.
“Oh . . . I want to go home. Back to Columbus. F--k New York! F--k your mom! Word to my mommy!” he reportedly says in the clip.
Later, he barks, “F--k this s--t, bro. F--k is he talking about?”
And when he sees a pigeon ahead, as well as a pedestrian, Teague spouts, “Kick that bitch!”
As he enters what appears to be the subway station, he gripes, “I don’t know how to get through this bitch!”
It was his first arrest. Still, Teague was ordered jailed without bail at his Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment Saturday.
“This is an extremely serious case [carrying] up to 15 years in prison,” said Judge Melissa Jackson, noting that Teague has no local contacts.
There were 17 rounds in a magazine recovered from a paper bag on the ground beside him, prosecutors said.
After being busted without incident at around 12:30 p.m. Friday, the teen allegedly told cops he bought the weapon legally in Ohio and thought it was OK to carry around if the ammo was stored separately, according to the criminal complaint against him.
The teenager’s father, Andrew Teague, 43, was shot and killed by authorities in Columbus, Ohio, on March 5 following a wild pursuit on Interstate 270, The Post has learned.
Authorities were trying to arrest the elder Teague for a felonious assault warrant related to a Feb. 2 incident before the deadly encounter, cops said.
Police pursued the father for more than an hour.
Then, in an attempt to flee, he drove the wrong way on I-270 and ultimately struck two other vehicles head-on within minutes, police said.
Chief Deputy Jim Gilbert of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said the elder Teague then got out of the vehicle.
The man began exchanging gunshots with a Columbus police officer and a deputy, WBNS-TV reported.
The elder Teague — who had a lengthy rap sheet, including arrests for weapons possession, domestic violence, burglary and drug trafficking — was killed in the shootout. Investigators recovered a gun at the scene.
HK Woods, the father’s cousin, told The Post by phone on Saturday that Teague had been having issues with his parole officer and it “drove him to the edge.”
“He kind of went out the only way he could,” Woods said.