A court will determine if a man accused of fatally stabbing his father in the Angeles National Forest is mentally competent to stand trial.
The criminal proceedings against 20-year-old Emir Abadzic Lowe, of Santa Monica, were suspended Thursday, Feb. 13, after the defense raised a doubt as to his competency, said Pamela Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The deputy public defender who is representing Lowe couldn’t be reached for comment on Friday.
The DA’s Office charged Lowe last year with the murder of his 60-year-old father, Paul Lowe, a veteran photojournalist and educator. The younger Lowe was also charged with the special allegation that he used a deadly weapon, a knife, to commit the crime.
Paul Lowe, identified by the medical examiner’s office as Christian Paul Lowe, died from a stab wound to the neck. Deputies went to an assault call and discovered him on Mt. Baldy Road, near Stoddard Canyon Falls on Oct. 12, 2024.
Emir Abadzic Lowe, who deputies said drove away and crashed, was arrested. He remains in custody at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles in lieu of $2 million bail.
He is scheduled to appear Feb. 27 at Hollywood Superior Court for a competency hearing.
Paul Lowe, who worked at the London College of Communications, University of the Arts, had covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nelson Mandela’s release, famine in Africa, the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and the destruction of Grozny.
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