(L.A.) Ryan Kobayashi, 58, Died in a Parking Lot

Case Number: 2024-18381

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 58-year-old Asian male that occurred in a parking lot.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Ryan Kobayashi.

Manner of Death: Suicide

Cause of Death: Multiple Blunt-Force Traumatic Injuries

RIP RYAN KOBAYASHI (April 14, 1966 – November 24, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Sunday at 4:15 a.m.

The decedent was the father of so-called “missing person” Hannah Kobayashi of Hawaii.

LAPD has confirmed that he willfully jumped off a parking structure near LAX.

Reference landmark: Tishman Airport Center

Address: 6151 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045

* Map views only approximate location and do not indicate the precise spot where the incident happened.

Inside Edition‘s video: The LAPD confirms that the 58-year-old died after he jumped from the seventh floor of a parking garage.

Kobayashi was of Japanese / Okinawan-Hawaiian descent.

Case Update on December 2: LAPD revealed that border security video showed Kobayashi leaving the United States near Tijuana between Nov. 12 and 13, a day or so after members of her family said they had last heard from her via text message.

There have been no confirmed communications with her since then, and authorities said they suspect Kobayashi may have left her cellphone somewhere in Los Angeles.