A man was arrested after threatening to shoot up the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday (October 20), authorities confirmed via ABC News .

Billy Cagle , 49, of Cartersville, Georgia, was charged with terroristic threats and criminal attempt to commit aggravated assaults, among other counts, according to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum . Cagle's family alerted police that he had been streaming on social media and had a semi-automatic assault rifle in his possession when he was headed to the airport on Monday.

Cagle, who is a felon reported to have mental health challenges, was detained after entering a terminal and officers found an AR-15 assault rifle with 27 rounds of ammunition in his pickup truck, which was parked outside.

"Because of the comm

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