ATLANTA — Federal prosecutors on Tuesday brought charges against a Georgia man who was arrested a day earlier by police after his family contacted authorities saying he planned a shooting at Atlanta’s international airport.

Billy Joe Cagle, 49, threatened to “shoot up” the world’s busiest airport on a FaceTime call while driving, abruptly ending the call after saying, “I’m at the airport, and I’m gonna go rat-a-tat-tat,” prosecutors said in a news release.

Atlanta police arrested Cagle, of Cartersville, on Monday at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport and found an assault rifle and ammunition in his truck outside, Chief Darin Schierbaum said.

Federal prosecutors said in a news release Tuesday that they had charged Cagle with attempted violence at an international airport, i

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