(NewsNation) —  The father of Hanna Kobayashi, a Maui woman who went missing in California, was found dead near Los Angeles International Airport early Sunday morning.

At 4 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to the 6100 block of West Century Boulevard for a death investigation, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement. An investigation by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office revealed the decedent to be 58-year-old Ryan Kobayashi, according to the LAPD.

NBC LA reports that he died after jumping from a parking structure.

In a statement posted on Facebook by the RAD movement, a non-profit organization that works to find people, the family said the loss has compounded their suffering “immeasurably.”

“What the family needs most in this difficult time is for all communities to rally around them with support, compassion, and prayers,” the statement said. “Please be considerate with your comments and posts. The trauma they are enduring is profound, and they now face the additional burden of grieving the loss of their family’s pillar and navigating next steps.”

The RAD movement wrote that Hannah Kobayashi’s family wants the public to remain focused on looking for her.

“It is crucial for everyone to remain vigilant in their efforts to locate Hannah,” the RAD movement said.

Search for Hannah Kobayashi

Hannah Kobayashi, 31, was going from Hawaii to New York to visit family but missed a connecting flight in Los Angeles on Nov. 8, 2024. Earlier sightings of her include one at the Grove Shopping Center, where Kobayashi posted to Instagram from a Nike event on Nov. 10.

A video obtained by the family shows Hannah Kobayashi strolling through the event that day wearing headphones. Family members say she was also spotted on surveillance video in downtown LA near a Metro stop about a block away from the Crypto.com Arena.

When Hannah Kobayashi went back to LAX on Nov. 11, her family started receiving what they say were “strange” and “alarming” text messages from her. One said, “I got hacked, stripped of my identity, I can’t fly.” Another read, “I got tricked pretty much into giving away my funds for someone I thought I loved. I’ve been on the streets.”

The family filed a formal missing persons report on Nov. 12.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit, Kobayashi is 5 feet, 10 inches tall, and weighs about 140 pounds. She has brown hair and eyes, and fair skin with freckles, as well as a tattoo that says “knife” on her forearm.

NewsNation’s Nancy Loo contributed to this report.