[Deathwatch] Karen Schmeer, film editor, 39

[Notification of departing celebrities]

January 30, 2010


  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' 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/errol_morris/index.html?inline=nyt-per> 
documentaries, including ''Fog of War.''

Morris wrote on his Twitter 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/twitter/index.html?inline=nyt-org> 
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.

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