Film editor Karen Schmeer, who collaborated with Errol Morris' on the Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War, died Friday (Jan. 22) after being struck by a car fleeing from a Manhattan drugstore robbery. The incident took place at Broadway and West 90th Street on the Upper West Side.
Schmeer won a best editing award at last year's Sundance Film Festival for Greg Barker's documentary Sergio, which is one of the semi-finalists for the 2010 Academy Awards. The film chronicles the life of Sergio de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights killed in the 2003 terrorist attack at the U.N. headquarters in Iraq.
Schmeer also won the best editing award at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival for Lucia Small's My Father, the Genius.
In addition to The Fog of War (2003), about former US Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara, Schmeer also edited Errol Morris documentaries Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) and Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999).
The driver of the speeding car has been arrested on a murder charge. Two other suspects are still on the loose.
This is a terrible tragedy… she was a great asset to the documentary team on the fog of war. Sigh!
Please change the first sentence to "after being struck by a car carrying men who were fleeing from a Manhattan drugstore robbery."
Or at least "after being struck by a car which was fleeing from a Manhattan drugstore robbery."
As it is, you make it sound like _she_ was the fleeing criminal.