Award-winning British photojournalist hacked to death by teenage son
An award-winning British photojournalist was allegedly stabbed to death by his teenage son while hiking in California.
Dr Paul Lowe, 60, a celebrated photographer who captured the fall of the Berlin Wall, was found dead in the San Gabriel Mountains on Saturday.
Police from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said they were called to “an assault with a deadly weapon” and discovered Dr Lowe with “trauma to his upper torso” near Stoddard Canyon Falls at about 3.30pm local time.
He died from a stab wound to his neck, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.
Emir Lowe, Dr Lowe’s 19-year-old son, was detained and arrested on suspicion of murder after he crashed his car while driving away from the area at high speed.
He was due to appear in court on Tuesday.
Dr Lowe, who split his time between London and the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, is understood to have been visiting Los Angeles on family matters.
A lecturer at London College of Communication and King’s College London, he documented world events throughout his celebrated career.
His work appeared in publications including TIME, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer and The Independent.
The Cambridge University graduate covered Nelson Mandela’s release, the famine in Somalia and the destruction of the Chechen city of Grozny.
He was best known in the former Yugoslavia for documenting the siege of Sarajevo, where he first came to work not long after the start of the war in 1992.
Daily Telegraph
