New York Daily News | Apr 17, 2021 at 4:24 PM He wasn’t on a mission. He was just “misinformed.” The mom of the 18-year-old Ohio man caught with an AK-47 in a midtown Manhattan subway said her son wasn’t planning any violence — he just thought it would be okay to visit New York with an assault rifle in tow. “I BEG of the media to quit painting a bad picture of my son whom was misinformed of the gun laws in NY,” the mother of suspect Saadiq Teague messaged a Daily News reporter on Saturday. “He was visiting Times Square for the first time to see it in person. He was so excited and happy and had no other reasons for being in NY!” she said. The rifle did not have a magazine inserted. A magazine and ammunition were within Teague’s reach, said law enforcement sources. Saadiq Teague, 18, is walked from NYPD Transit 1 at Columbus Circle in Manhattan on Friday, April 16, 2021. (Sam Costanza/for New York Daily News) Teague was questioned by detectives from the NYPD Intelligence Bureau before he was charged with multiple counts of gun possession and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia. He…
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