British war photographer Paul Lowe dies after California stabbing, his teenage son is charged with murder

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Murder charge in Los Angeles against teenage son of acclaimed photojournalist, praised for ‘shining a spotlight on siege of Sarajevo’

The British photojournalist Paul Lowe has been fatally stabbed on a hiking trail in California and his teenage son arrested for murder, according to police.

Lowe, who covered conflicts including the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, was found dead on 12 October in the San Gabriel mountains.

The 60-year-old had been stabbed in the neck, records at the Los Angeles medical examiner’s office said.

Lowe’s 19-year-old son Emir was charged with one count of murder and was due to appear on Wednesday at the West Covina courthouse, the Los Angeles county district attorney’s office told the PA news agency.


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According to police, the incident happened at about 3.28pm at Mount Baldy Road, near Stoddard Canyon Falls. A statement from the sheriff’s department said officers responding to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon found a “white male adult suffering trauma to his upper torso”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/16/paul-lowe-death-stabbing-california-san-gabriel-mountains-hiking-trail-war-photographer-ntwnfb

In a bizarre twist to a grisly crime on a popular hiking trail in the San Gabriel Mountains where a 19-year-old man reportedly stabbed his father to death, the victim has been identified as a well-known, award-winning war photographer, photojournalist and professor at University of the Arts London.

On Oct. 12, deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to the area around Mt. Baldy Road near Stoddard Canyon Falls just before 3:30 p.m. where they discovered a man suffering from severe “trauma to his upper torso,” LASD officials said in a news release.

The victim, now identified by friends as 61-year-old Paul Lowe, was declared dead at the scene.


Investigators soon learned that another man was seen driving away from the area at high speeds and ultimately crashed his car just a few miles down the road.

Authorities initially detained the 19-year-old, now identified as Emir Lowe, according to LASD booking records, before arresting him on suspicion of murder.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/father-allegedly-killed-by-son-near-trail-off-mt-baldy-was-renowned-photojournalist/

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Lowe was a professor and award-winning British photojournalist who covered major world events, including the terrors of the Bosnian war, the fall of the Berlin Wall and most notably, the siege of Sarajevo in 1992

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13963233/paul-lowe-war-photographer-stabbed-killed-son-california-mountains-hiking-trail-waterfall.html

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2. Just horrible!

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3. So sad......I wonder what was the reason, might never know, just so sad.

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4. Son was having mental issues. Went to LA for a few days, hadn't returned. Father went to LA to bring him back

Per Paul Lowe's wife..

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5. TY for some what of an

explanation. It's Chilling, horrifying and so sad.

The report on a person speeding away is mystifying , too.