Acclaimed film editor Karen Schmeer, who edited Errol Morris’s Fog of War, has been struck and killed by a getaway car speeding from a New York City drugstore robbery.

Her mother, Eleanor DuBois Schmeer, confirmed the film editor’s death.

Schmeer was the editor of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris’s documentaries, including 2003′s The Fog of War — about former U.S. Defence Secretary Robert McNamara and his reflections on the Vietnam War — and Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.

Morris wrote on his Twitter feed that Schmeer’s death was a “senseless tragedy.”

Schmeer also edited the 2005 Sydney Pollack film, Sketches of Frank Gehry. She captured an editing award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 for the documentary Sergio — about Sergio De Mello, a highly-regarded U.N. negotiator who died in a 2003 terrorist attack in Iraq.

“In a business full of huge egos — and believe me, she’s worked with a few of them — she was completely modest and incredibly self-effacing about her immense talent,” Sergio director Greg Barker told The New York Times.

The 39-year-old editor 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.

Police Lt. John Grimpel says the driver of the getaway car has been arrested on a murder charge.

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