Father of missing Maui woman Hannah Kobayashi found dead near LAX

(NewsNation) —  The begetter of Hanna Kobayashi, a Maui pistillate who went missing successful California, was recovered dormant adjacent Los Angeles International Airport aboriginal Sunday morning.

At 4 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to the 6100 artifact of West Century Boulevard for a decease investigation, the Los Angeles Police Department said successful a statement. An probe by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office revealed the decedent to beryllium 58-year-old Ryan Kobayashi, according to the LAPD.

NBC LA reports that helium died aft jumping from a parking structure.

In a connection posted connected Facebook by the RAD movement, a non-profit enactment that works to find people, the household said the nonaccomplishment has compounded their suffering "immeasurably."

"What the household needs astir successful this hard clip is for each communities to rally astir them with support, compassion, and prayers," the connection said. "Please beryllium considerate with your comments and posts. The trauma they are enduring is profound, and they present look the further load of grieving the nonaccomplishment of their family's pillar and navigating adjacent steps."

The RAD question wrote that Hannah Kobayashi's household wants the nationalist to stay focused connected looking for her.

"It is important for everyone to stay vigilant successful their efforts to find Hannah," the RAD question said.

Search for Hannah Kobayashi

Hannah Kobayashi, 31, was going from Hawaii to New York to sojourn household but missed a connecting formation successful Los Angeles connected Nov. 8, 2024. Earlier sightings of her see 1 astatine the Grove Shopping Center, wherever Kobayashi posted to Instagram from a Nike lawsuit connected Nov. 10.

A video obtained by the family shows Hannah Kobayashi strolling done the lawsuit that time wearing headphones. Family members accidental she was besides spotted connected surveillance video successful downtown LA adjacent a Metro halt astir a artifact distant from the Crypto.com Arena.

When Hannah Kobayashi went backmost to LAX connected Nov. 11, her household started receiving what they accidental were "strange" and "alarming" substance messages from her. One said, "I got hacked, stripped of my identity, I can’t fly.” Another read, "I got tricked beauteous overmuch into giving distant my funds for idiosyncratic I thought I loved. I’ve been connected the streets.”

The household filed a ceremonial missing persons study connected Nov. 12.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit, Kobayashi is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, and weighs astir 140 pounds. She has brownish hairsbreadth and eyes, and just tegument with freckles, arsenic good arsenic a tattoo that says “knife” connected her forearm.

NewsNation's Nancy Loo contributed to this report.