Famed film editor struck, killed by car in NYC (AP)
NEW YORK – An award-winning flick application who worked on some of Errol Morris’ documentaries, including “The Fog of War,” was struck and killed by a flight automobile motion from a borough shop robbery, personnel and her care said on Saturday.
Karen Schmeer was crossover street at West 90th Street on the Upper West Side on weekday when she was struck by a automobile unvoluntary by digit suspects in the thieving of over-the-counter drug from a CVS shop a some blocks away, personnel said.
Her mother, Eleanor DuBois Schmeer, addicted the flick editor’s death. Schmeer was an application for Morris’ documentaries as substantially as another works, including “Sergio,” which won a best-editing honor terminal assemblage at the Sundance Film Festival. The flick is most Sergio de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights killed in a 2003 discharge at U.N. office in Iraq.
“She was meet extremely idolized by many, some friends,” said Schmeer’s mother, from her bag in Portland, Ore., where her girl was born.
Morris wrote on his Twitter take that Schmeer’s modification was a “senseless tragedy.”
Lt. Evangelist Grimpel said the utility of the automobile has been inactive on a remove calculate presently after Friday’s crash. Schmeer was noticeable departed at St. Luke’s Hospital.
On Saturday, personnel were ease hunting for a traveller who fled from the automobile as substantially as a ordinal suspect.
Although Schmeer’s terminal traded come was in Boston, her care said she was experience in an housing on the Upper West Side when she was killed.
In constituent to redaction Morris’ Academy Award-winning movie film, “The Fog of War,” which profiled past Secretary of Defense parliamentarian MacNamara, Schmeer worked as application on some of his another films. She also was an application for “Sketches of Frank Gehry,” directed by Sydney Pollack.
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