The prayer service for SeaTac City Councilmember Amina Ahmed was held Monday at a mosque in Tukwila. Dozens showed up to pay their respects.

Hamdi Mohamed was supposed to meet up with Councilmember Ahmed on Saturday, the day she was killed in a car crash.

"I called her at 4:00 a couple of times on the phone and she didn't answer and thirty minutes later I got a call from my auntie asking me if I had heard the news," Mohamed said, "It was shocking. It was unbelievable.”

Ahmed had only joined the council seven weeks ago.

She was an advocate for immigrant rights and had worked with Mohamed at Refugee Women's Alliance.

"She was a mentor, a friend," said Mohamed. "She was brilliant. She was brave."