A well-known photojournalist was reportedly stabbed to death while hiking near Los Angeles, and his 19-year-old son was arrested as the prime suspect.
Paul Lowe, 61, was found by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies near a popular hiking trail near Stoddard Canyon Falls in the San Gabriel Mountains. KTLA reported.
University of the Arts London.
Lowe was found on a hiking trail with injuries to his upper body and a stab wound to his neck. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of death was determined to be a neck injury, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.
According to KTLA, the man who caused the accident a few miles down the road and fled the scene in a car has been identified as the victim's 19-year-old son, Emile Rowe.
He was taken into custody at LASD on suspicion of murdering his father.
Chief Lowe is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday. He is being held in the Los Angeles County Jail on $2 million bail, according to reports.
Paul Lowe had a decades-long career as a journalist and was also an award-winning war photographer. He was involved in the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Bosnian war, the Romanian revolution, siege of sarajevo. Lowe was also a popular professor at the University of the Arts London.
Lowe's most famous photograph is a black-and-white photograph of a child with a ball taken during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992. his job is published in a famous publication Time, Newsweek, Sunday Times, Observer, Independent, etc.
Ika Ferrer Gotic, Senior International News Producer and Anchor at CNN. I wrote to X“When #PaulLowe passed away, we lost more than a photographer. We lost a witness to history, a storyteller who showed the world a truth that many wanted to ignore.”
