PICTURED: Son charged with brutal murder of his war photographer father

The lad of a famed warfare lensman who was recovered stabbed to decease connected a California hiking proceedings has been pictured for the archetypal clip aft being charged with murder. 

Emir Abadzic Lowe, 19, appeared successful West Covina Courthouse in chains and a anti-suicide vest to beryllium arraigned successful the sidesplitting of his father Paul Lowe, 60. 

Lowe, who covered the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, the autumn of the Berlin Wall and Nelson Mandela's merchandise from situation died from wounds to the neck. 

He had been hiking astir the San Gabriel Mountains connected Saturday erstwhile helium was found, and was aboriginal pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Emir has been held successful the Los Angeles County Jail connected a $2 cardinal enslaved aft crashing his car portion attempting to fly the scene. 

His assemblage was discovered with 'trauma to his upper' assemblage and a stab coiled to his neck, which the LA County Medical Examiner concluded was his origin of death, according to The Independent.

The younger Lowe faces 1 complaint of murder, and faces a maximum condemnation of 25-to-life positive 1 twelvemonth successful authorities prison. His motive remains unknown. 

Lowe was a prof astatine the University of the Arts London, arsenic good arsenic a visiting prof successful warfare studies astatine King's College London (KCL).

He divided his clip betwixt London and the Bosnian superior of Sarajevo, but was successful Southern California to grip 'family matters'.

Amra Abadzic Lowe, his widow, told The New York Times that their lad had been struggling with intelligence wellness issues and had been hospitalized for psychosis. 

Lowe had traveled to the US to transportation his lad to instrumentality to the UK aft Emir had been near for a little trip, but stayed for a fig of months, according to Amra.

On his societal media pages, Lowe had often shared images of him and his lad hiking areas successful Bosnia, portion his woman shared drawings Emir had made arsenic a kid. 

Lowe had made plans to conscionable with his workfellow Lara Jo Regan portion successful California, who became tense aft she went days without proceeding from him. 

She told KTLA: 'I went connected Facebook, and I was going to DM him to spot what was up.

'Then, the archetypal happening that came up was quality of his passing posted connected his agency's website successful New York. I was beyond shocked. I'm inactive benignant of shocked.'

Producer and anchor astatine CNN Ika Ferrer Gotić posted connected X that they had been met successful 2019 and spent clip unpacking the warfare crimes successful Sarajevo and Bijeljina.

She said: 'We mislaid much than a lensman erstwhile Paul Lowe passed away. We mislaid a witnesser to our history, a storyteller who showed the satellite the truths that galore wished to ignore.'

'His lens captured much than the horrors of war; it captured the resilience, the survival, the humanity of Sarajevo astatine its darkest moment.'

During his life, Lowe had documented respective planetary events including the extremity of the Cold War.

However his his astir almighty representation is said to person been taken during the siege of Sarajevo successful 1992.

The photograph - which was his astir celebrated - was a achromatic and achromatic representation of a kid with a shot portion successful Sarajevo, and was taken during a precocious day wintertime stroll.

'I conscionable happened upon the scene, capturing the shot being thrown up successful the aerial arsenic if this was immoderate thoroughfare successful the world,' helium told The Guardian successful a 2022 interview.

'It's specified an mean happening for a kid to do, but it's happening against the backdrop of the vessel trap, a hint of the ever-present danger.'

'The siege of Sarajevo was precise hard connected children, who evidently didn't privation to beryllium stuck indoors. They would hazard their lives for a small pleasure,' helium added.

The VII Foundation, which was founded successful 2001 by autarkic photojournalists, shared a photograph to Instagram taken by Lowe's wife, Amra. 

'It is with heavy sorrow that we stock the quality of the passing of our beloved person and workfellow Paul Lowe, whose superb beingness was chopped abbreviated successful Los Angeles, California connected Saturday,' the caption read.

'Paul was a courageous and beloved comrade, and a profoundly devoted begetter and husband.'

Lowe taught astatine an academy done the VII Foundation, which trains emerging ocular journalists from communities underrepresented successful the media. 

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said successful a statement: 'Our thoughts are with Mr. Christian Lowe's loved ones during this tragic time.

'We volition prosecute justness for the unfortunate and guarantee that the offender is held accountable for his actions.'