Father of missing Hannah Kobayashi found dead in L.A. of apparent suicide

The begetter of missing Hawaii pistillate Hannah Kobayashi has been recovered dormant successful Los Angeles aft flying determination to hunt for his daughter, who disappeared earlier this month.

Ryan Kobayashi, 58, was found astatine astir 4 a.m. Sunday successful a parking lot adjacent Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. He seemingly committed termination by jumping disconnected a parking structure, constabulary confirmed to KNBC and different outlets aft a nonprofit enactment believed to beryllium assisting successful the hunt said arsenic overmuch successful a statement.

“The Kobayashi household endured a devastating calamity today. After tirelessly searching passim Los Angeles for 13 days, Hannah’s father, Ryan Kobayashi, tragically took his ain life,” the enactment said, according to KABC-TV. “This nonaccomplishment has compounded the family’s suffering immeasurably.”

Ryan Kobayashi (ABC 7 News)

Hannah Kobayashi, 31, vanished portion en way to New York City from her autochthonal Maui connected Nov. 8, a Friday. She was expected to drawback a connecting formation astatine LAX and onshore successful New York the adjacent time but ne'er arrived.

A fewer days later, household members backmost location received disturbing and disjointed substance messages from Kobayashi’s phone, including 1 saying idiosyncratic was trying to bargain her identity, and that she was “really scared.” Around the aforesaid time, surveillance video surfaced of her astatine the Pico Metro Station adjacent Crypto.com Arena, connected Nov. 11. She was not alone, and that’s the past anyone saw of her. Her telephone goes consecutive to voicemail.

Hannah Kobayashi

Ryan Kobayashi immediately flew to Los Angeles to hunt for his girl and had been determination astir 2 weeks.

“Tragically, Ryan is nary longer with us, leaving america each heartbroken and astatine a nonaccomplishment for words,” wrote the organizer of an online backing thrust to enactment Ryan Kobayashi’s fiancee, Li Jaena.

“He has been surviving his implicit worst nightmare, since Hannah’s disappearance, and now, with his passing, our household is grappling with unimaginable grief. Ryan’s emotion for his household was boundless, and helium would bash thing to support and attraction for his daughters.”