The celebrated photojournalist is allegedly stabbed to death by his teenage son on a popular hiking trail in Los Angeles

A well-known photojournalist was fatally stabbed and his 19-year-old son was taken into custody after a hike in the San Gabriel Mountains turned fatal over the weekend.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officers responded to a popular hiking trail near Stoddard Canyon Falls on Oct. 12, where they found a man with “trauma to his upper body” and a stab wound to his neck, LASD officials said in a news release.

The victim, later identified by friends as 61-year-old Paul Lowe, an award-winning British photojournalist who covered major world events such as the Siege of Sarajevo, was pronounced dead at the scene, KTLA reported.

Another man who was seen driving away from the scene at a high rate of speed and crashing his car a few miles down the road was identified as Lowe’s son, Emir Lowe, according to the LASD.

Emir was arrested on suspicion of murder in the killing of his father, whose cause of death was a stab wound to the neck, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.

The son’s motive for the alleged murder remains unknown. He is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.

According to Lowe, he was a well-known photojournalist, a popular professor and a mentor to many Insight into Prishtina. His work has been featured in The Independent, Time, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine And The Observer.

Following news of his death, condolences and tributes poured in from friends, colleagues and even strangers from around the world.

Ika Ferrer Gotić, a senior international news producer and anchor at CNN and editor-in-chief at Forbes, wrote in a tweet that she met Lowe in 2019 when they spent time “exposing forgotten war crimes in Sarajevo and Bijeljina.”

“We lost more than one photographer when #PaulLowe died,” she added. “We have lost a witness to our history, a storyteller who showed the world the truths that many wanted to ignore. His lens captured more than just the horrors of war; It captured the resilience, survival and humanity of #Sarajevo in its darkest moment.”

Lara Jo Regan, a colleague of Lowe’s and a photojournalist, told KTLA that Lowe told her he was in Southern California to sort out some family matters. They planned to meet, but several days passed and she never heard from him.

“I went on Facebook and wanted to DM him to see what was going on,” she said. “The first thing that emerged was the news of his death, which was posted on his agency’s website in New York. I was beyond shocked. I’m still kind of shocked.”

Regan first met Lowe 24 years ago at the World Press Photo of the Year exhibition.

“We had some great, interesting, stimulating and inspiring conversations about photography,” she said. “I just think it’s the impact he had on a lot of people, both students and colleagues. He had a real generosity of spirit.”

“I just want him to know that his spirit will live on through these and many other pictures he took,” she added.