Man arrested inside Atlanta airport after planning to shoot up terminal with AR-15, police chief says

[groundloop]

Source: 11 Alive News

A man with "mental challenges" was arrested after plotting to shoot up Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday morning, according to authorities.

The man, 49-year-old Billy Cagle of Cartersville, showed up to the airport just after 9 a.m. after Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said he livestreamed on social media that he had plans to go to the Atlanta airport to "shoot it up."

Cagle's family said they heard about the threats and immediately notified Cartersville Police, who said has had past run-ins with Cagle, a previously convicted felon.

Cartersville Police immediately told Atlanta Police, who notified airport security and they immediately began searching for Cagle. His family told police he was driving a Chevrolet flatbed pickup truck, which authorities found parked right outside the airport at the S1 doors at the South Terminal.


Read more: https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/man-arrested-inside-atlanta-airport-planning-to-shoot-up-terminal-ar-15-rifle/85-b3f534b1-5e80-4583-96cc-685661b96972

[chicoescuela]

1. Another left wing lunatic I'm sure will be reported immediately.

[Aviation Pro]

2. Is his mental illness

Being a fucking MAGAt?

[C Moon]

6. I looked at his facebook page and didn't see any politics.

There was one post that said something about telling his children that "if I'm ever picked up, sue." (not word for word).
Sounds like maybe he doesn't like police or authority.

[soldierant]

3. Probably not interesting to anyone but me,

but this is the first time we know of hat a mass shooting was planned at a a place where I have actually been. Back in the day, when I was on active duty and stationed on the East Coast - in North Carolina - and my family was all in California - if I wanted to fly either way there would be a change of planes between the big cross country one and the small local one in Atlanta. I changed planes there going to and then back from my favorite aunt's funeral. That would have been most likely in 1972. I expect it's changed a lot in more than 50 years though.

[Harker]

9. Regrettably, we're in a fast growing club.

The supermarket in south Boulder where I shopped for about 30 years was the scene of a mass shooting.

Knowing the location, and maybe some of the people there really brings it home.

[soldierant]

13. I'm in Colorado, but not Boulder

and I was shocked certainly - and it must have been much worse for you.

[Harker]

14. The horror transcended time and space.

I've been away from Colorado for seven years, but the awful news brought me straight back.

[IronLionZion]

4. "mental challenges"

is why we can't do anything about easy access to guns

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Why does someone with known mental issues have an AR-15?

[twodogsbarking]

10. A gift from Charlie Kirk.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

7. Looks straight out of MAGA central casting. No pickup for him, he's rollin' a flatbed with a bale of hay!

[Javaman]

8. mentally challenged with a felony rap sheet was still able to get guns.

what a country.

[Aristus]

11. Well, the shareholders of the gun-manufacturers need their dividends.

So, please...*sob*...think of the shareholders!...

[eppur_se_muova]

12. "An armed society is a polite society" ... wait, let's clarify some definitions here ...

just WTF is your idea of a **POLITE** society ??