I understand the intended mechanism, but I'd suggest that grief, or even emotional disturbance, doesn't inevitably lead to violence. I think that a more realistic exploration of reactions to grief, even misplaced grief, would make for a much better story.
Although you'll need to work a little on smoothing down the rough edges of the explanation for the anomaly. Presumably the frame didn't create an instance of Elijah that was sad, so why does it have that effect on other pictures? The whispered explanation from the mysterious stranger seems too forced and convenient, blatantly tying together the frame's original intended effect with its current anomaly in a way that is clearly for the service of plot mechanics, rather than having a sensible in-universe explanation.
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