The Brief<\/p>\n
Ray Fitzgerald Montgomery, a San Jose pastor and former head of a local community activist group, was found guilty of domestic violence by a jury last week, authorities said in a news release Monday.<\/p>\n
The Santa Clara County district attorney’s office said that Montgomery, 59, strangled a woman, 42, with whom he had a relationship with in his home back in 2024.<\/p>\n
He will be sentenced on Sept. 8 in San Jose and faces jail time.<\/p>\n
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Authorities said in a news release<\/a> Monday that Ray Fitzgerald Montgomery, a San Jose<\/a> pastor and former head of a local community activist group, was found guilty of domestic violence by a jury last week.<\/p>\n The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said that Montgomery, 59, strangled a woman, 42, with whom he had a relationship with in his home back in 2024.<\/p>\n Found guilty of domestic violence<\/p>\n What we know<\/p>\n After a trial, on Thursday, July 2, the jury deliberated for three hours and found Montgomery guilty of misdemeanor domestic violence.<\/p>\n He will be sentenced on Sept. 8 in San Jose and faces jail time.<\/p>\n Before he was charged, Montgomery filed a lawsuit in 2025 against the woman claiming that he was being defamed by her, falsely accusing him of the attack.<\/p>\n Montgomery also accused the victim of forcing his resignation from the activist group People Acting in Community Together.<\/p>\n The lawsuit is currently pending.<\/p>\n Domestic violence attack<\/p>\n The backstory<\/p>\n On the evening of June 6, 2024, the victim went to Montgomery\u2019s home and an argument began.<\/p>\n During this incident, the DA\u2019s office said that Montgomery picked the victim up and dragged her down the hallway. She had told him to stop but he refused.<\/p>\n It escalated to him strangling her, and when the woman felt she was about to lose consciousness, Montgomery released her from the hold between his forearm and bicep.<\/p>\n The victim ran, hid in the bathroom and called a friend to rescue her. She also took photographs of herself, authorities said.<\/p>\n The next day, the victim went to Stanford Hospital and reported the attack.<\/p>\n She contacted the San Jose Police Department on Nov. 26, 2024, to report the defendant\u2019s identity and the incident location. Follow-up statements from the victim were also given to detectives.<\/p>\n The Source<\/p>\n County of Santa Clara’s Office of the District Attorney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Ray Fitzgerald Montgomery, a San Jose pastor and former head of a local community activist group,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[157042,4749,49225,156989,88,90,89,198],"class_list":["post-389680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-community-activist-group","tag-domestic-violence","tag-montgomery","tag-ray-fitzgerald-montgomery","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}