Son charged with murdering war photographer father

The teenage lad of British photojournalist Paul Lowe has been charged with his murder.

Mr Lowe, 61, an award-winning lensman who covered conflicts including the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian warfare (1992-95), was recovered stabbed to decease astatine a hiking way successful California, connected Saturday.

Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office confirmed that his lad Emir, 19, had been charged with his murder.

Records astatine the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner revealed Mr Lowe had been stabbed successful the neck, PA reports.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told PA: "The District Attorney's bureau filed 1 number of execution connected fishy Emir Lowe for the execution of his begetter Christian Paul Lowe.

"There is nary further accusation astatine this time."

Emir Lowe is to marque his archetypal tribunal quality connected Wednesday astatine the West Covina Courthouse, the section added.

According to police, the incidental happened astatine astir 15:28 astatine Mount Baldy Road, adjacent Stoddard Canyon Falls.

A connection from the sheriff's section said officers had responded to reports of an battle with a deadly limb and recovered a "white antheral big suffering trauma to his precocious torso".

Mr Lowe was pronounced dormant astatine the country by exigency services.

The sheriff's section added: "A achromatic antheral big was seen driving distant from the country and was subsequently progressive successful a solo postulation collision a fewer miles away. The antheral was detained pending further investigation."

King's College London, wherever Mr Lowe was a visiting prof successful warfare studies, said the acclaimed photojournalist would beryllium "deeply missed".

"It is with heavy sadness that we received the quality of Professor Paul Lowe's passing," a statement posted connected X read.

"Paul was a Visiting Professor successful the Department of War Studies, a Professor of Photojournalism astatine the University of the Arts London, and an award-winning photojournalist with VII Academy. A friend, workfellow and collaborator whose enactment had a immense interaction successful shining a spotlight connected the Siege of Sarajevo and addressing its legacy, we were privileged to enactment with him connected respective projects related to creation and reconciliation.

"His boundless energy, warmth, creativity, inaugural and enthusiasm were contagious and uniquely inspiring. He volition beryllium profoundly missed.

"We nonstop our deepest condolences to his household astatine this hard time."