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.
