On Sunday, friends and family said goodbye to a driving force in the Muslim Reform Movement (MRM), Courtney Lonergan, and her two oldest children Ali Geer, age 18, and Almira Geer, age 16, who were killed in a collision caused by a car thief.
According to Phoenix Police, 33-year-old Raymond Montgomery was going 97 miles per hour when he ran a red light and caused the crash that killed Courtney Lonergan and her two kids.
Montgomery has been booked into jail. He has been charged with robbery, three counts of homicide, theft and multiple counts of assault.
“This has all been so unspeakably hard for all of us to fathom and understand for our family, at home, our activist family in our passion at the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and our family globally at the Muslim Reform Movement,” said Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Scottsdale physician, popular conservative pundit, and activist. “Courtney literally facilitated, led, and made productive every important meeting we had for almost 15 years. She also served selflessly on our Board of Directors at AIFD for the last five years.”
Courtney, Ali and Almira are survived by Aracelli, age 14, who was at home at the time of the accident.
Dr. Jasser noted in his Facebook post that AIFD “has set up a dedicated Memorial Fund in Courtney’s family name. If you’d like to contribute any amount, you can donate at this link https://aifdemocracy.org/take-action/donate/ and please email us at info@aifdemocracy.org to confirm and/or just note in the submission note that funds are intended for the Courtney Lonergan Memorial Fund.
The American Islamic Forum for Democracy’s (AIFD) mission, according to the organization’s website, “is to advocate for the preservation of the founding principles of the United States Constitution, liberty and freedom, through the separation of mosque and state.”