GEORGETOWN, S.C. (WCIV) — A Georgetown man has been taken into custody after allegedly threatening to “shoot up” multiple South Carolina airports potentially in connection to his reported annoyance with the noise generated by planes flying over his residence.
21-year-old Ahmad Z’yiem Guilford is charged with making interstate threats and making false statements to a federal agent, according to the US Attorney for the District of South Carolina’s office.
Officials said that local law enforcement agencies began receiving complaints from flight schools and aviation businesses located at the airports in Charleston, Georgetown, and Florence stating a caller was using different phone numbers to make “violent and graphic threats” to the airports themselves and the people who answered the phone…