A white teen has admitted to planning to kill Black church members in 2019 was sentenced to four years in juvenile detention. 17-year-old Caitlyn Pye will face 10 years of probation once he’s released in four years. The Gainesville, Georgia native was charged with criminal attempt to commit murder after she planned an attack on church members at the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in November 2019.
School resource officers in Gainesville were notified that Pye had “detailed” written plans to “commit murder” in a notebook. School officials searched Pye’s bag, they found the notebook, one T-shirt with the phrase “natural selection”, and another T-shirt with “Free Dylann Storm Roof” on it the Gainesville Times reported.
Dylann Roof murdered nine Black people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. The back of one shirt said, “I had to do it because somebody had to do something because Black people are killing white people every day on the streets. What I did is still minuscule compared to what they’re doing to White people every day. I do consider myself a White supremacist.” The quote is similar to Roof’s statements found in his online manifesto and a journal after the Charleston Massacre.
Pye visited the church she intended to target several times, but there was no one there.
Pye is forbidden from having any contact with any AME church in the state of Georgia and is required to remain 150 yards away from any other AME church. She is also required that she write an apology letter to the church and attend court-ordered counseling.
“I’m truly sorry for what I’ve done,” Pye said in court on Oct. 22 and she pleaded guilty to one count of criminal attempt to commit a felony.
Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, the presiding prelate of the Sixth Episcopal District of the AME Church said, “While we are angered and frustrated by this incident, we do not hold hostility against this defendant. While she apparently hates or hated us, we do not hate her, and do not wish to nullify her future, and do not give up on her.”
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