PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN HIT AND RUN ACCIDENT ON MANHATTAN'S UPPER WEST SIDE
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Bronx Injury Lawyer)
This story unfolded gradually. It started as a report of an unidentified 39 year-old woman killed Friday night (January 29, 2010) at about 8 PM while crossing Broadway near West 90th Street when she was struck by a car - a late model Ford or Dodge - that drove off, leaving the driver unidentified. The victim was struck so hard she was knocked out of her boots.
The pedestrian died from her injuries and was pronounced dead at St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center. Police were checking into he possibility that the driver had robbed a nearby CVS pharmacy and was fleeing.
Facts have been trickling in, and the story taking shape. We have now learned that the dead victim was named Karen Schmeer and that she was an award-winning documentary film editor.
We now also know that the accident started with a shoplifting crime: three men stealing over-the-counter drugs from an Upper West side CVS Pharmacy.
At the time that Karen Schmeer was killed, cops were chasing the car carrying the shoplifters. Although the men fled the car after it crashed, police were able to arrest the driver, David McKie, age 25, of Coral Gables, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York. The search continues for the other perpetrators.
