Famed Film Editor Struck, Killed by Car in NYC
Filed at 8:03 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- An award-winning film editor has been struck and killed by a getaway car speeding from a New York City drugstore robbery.
Police identified the woman as 39-year-old Karen Schmeer. Her mother, Eleanor DuBois Schmeer, confirmed the film editor's death.
Schmeer was the editor of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris'
documentaries, including ''Fog of War.''
Morris wrote on his Twitter feed that Schmeer's death was a ''senseless tragedy.''
She was crossing a street on the Upper West Side on Friday night when she was struck by a car fleeing a CVS drugstore where police say three men had stolen over-the-counter medication.
She was pronounced dead at St. Luke's Hospital.
Lt. John Grimpel says the driver of the getaway car has been arrested on a murder charge.