Family members called police to tell them about the threat, and the suspect Billy Joe Cagle was arrested less than 15 minutes later.

The man, Billy J. Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said.

Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A Georgia man was arrested Monday inside a terminal at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after allegedly threatening on social media to "shoot it up."

Police arrested a man at Atlanta's bustling airport on Monday after getting a tip from his family that he was planning to shoot up the place, and found an assault-style rifle and ammunition in his truck outside, the city's police chief said. Billy Joe Cagle, of Cartersville, Georgia, had described…

ATLANTA (AP) — Police arrested a man at Atlanta’s bustling airport on Monday after getting a tip from his family that he was planning to shoot up the place, and found an assault rifle and ammunition in his truck outside, the city’s police chief...

Police have arrested a man accused of threatening to open fire at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta.

Family alerts police after man livestreams threat to "shoot up" Atlanta airport, leading to arrest before he could enter terminal with loaded AR-15 weapon.