(CNN) — Authorities arrested a man inside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday after his family alerted police that he was armed and headed to the airport to “shoot it up.”

The man, Billy Joe Cagle, was not armed when he was arrested but police found an AR-15 assault rifle in his vehicle parked outside, authorities said. He is facing charges of terroristic threats, criminal attempt to commit aggravated assaults, possession of firearm in the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by convicted felon, according to Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum, who called it a “tragedy averted.”

CNN has reached out to the Transportation Security Administration, the FBI, the Atlanta Police Department and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport for comme

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