LOS ANGELES — Hannah Kobayashi, the lacking Hawaii lady whose disappearance sparked an enormous search and missing-persons investigation in Los Angeles, has been discovered secure, police stated Wednesday.
Kobayashi handed away final month in Los Angeles. She missed her connection and had deliberate to discover the town the following day, however subsequent textual content messages to her household – and the lack to contact her – alarmed them a lot that they later reported her lacking.
Other particulars about her disappearance, in addition to the place and the way she was discovered, weren’t instantly accessible Wednesday, however police had beforehand stated she was “voluntarily lacking” and had voluntarily crossed the border into Mexico.
“We are blissful to study that Hannah has been discovered secure and sound,” the Los Angeles Police Department stated in an announcement. “Now that we now have this new data, this has grow to be a personal matter and we are going to conclude our investigation.”
Kobayashi’s mom and sister, in an announcement launched by their lawyer, had been the primary to announce Wednesday that she had been discovered secure and sound.
“We are extremely relieved and grateful that Hannah was discovered secure and sound,” Brandi Yee and Sydni Kobayashi wrote. “This previous month has been an unimaginable ordeal for our household and we kindly ask for privateness as we take time to heal and course of every little thing we now have been by means of. We need to specific our heartfelt due to everybody who supported us throughout this troublesome time. Your kindness and curiosity meant a lot to us.”
Kobayashi, a budding photographer from Maui, was headed to New York on Nov. 8 for a brand new job and to go to kin when she missed a connecting flight throughout a layover at Los Angeles International Airport. He advised his household he was going to sleep on the airport that evening and texted the following day to say he was visiting Los Angeles.
Her household reported her disappearance to regulation enforcement on Nov. 11 after kin acquired textual content messages that had been “unusual and cryptic, simply alarming,” in response to her aunt Larie Pidgeon.
“Once the household began pushing her, she went darkish,” Pidgeon advised The Associated Press late final month. After the Nov. 11 messages, his telephone “simply died,” Pidgeon stated.
Family, associates and native volunteers looked for Hannah in Los Angeles. Hannah’s father, Ryan Kobayashi, was amongst those that flew in from Hawaii to assist with the search. He was discovered lifeless Nov. 24 in a car parking zone close to Los Angeles International Airport, in response to the county medical expert. Kobayashi’s household confirmed Ryan Kobayashi’s dying in an announcement the identical day, saying they “have suffered a devastating tragedy” and that he died by suicide.
Police stated Hannah Kobayashi entered Mexico on the San Ysidro border crossing, about 125 miles southeast of Los Angeles, on Nov. 12, the day after her household reported her lacking. Authorities made the announcement after reviewing safety movies from US Customs and Border Protection.
Kobayashi voluntarily disappeared whereas making an attempt to “get away from trendy connectivity,” Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell beforehand stated.
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