A man who appeared to be planning a large-scale attack at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was arrested Monday after his family alerted law enforcement officials that he was on his way there to “shoot it up,” authorities said.

The man, Billy J. Cagle, 49, a felon, was arrested at the airport and charged with making terroristic threats, an attempt to commit aggravated assault and other firearms charges, Chief Darin Schierbaum of the Atlanta Police Department said at a news conference Monday.

Police officers found an AR-15-style rifle with 27 rounds of ammunition inside the Chevrolet flatbed pickup truck that Cagle had parked directly outside the airport, authorities said. They said they were looking into how Cagle, who couldn’t legally own a gun, had obtained it. His crimi

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