Missing photographer Hannah Kobayashi spotted buying bus ticket day before police said she crossed border into Mexico

Shocking surveillance footage shows Hannah Kobayashi buying a bus ticket to the southern border the day before police said she crossed over through a tunnel into Mexico.The footage shows Kobayashi wearing a sweatsuit and purchasing a ticket with cash at LA Union Station on Nov.11, according to a still obtained by Fox 11 Los Angeles.

She also appears to have her passport and luggage with her at the ticket counter.Kobayashi is believed to have then reached the San Ysidro border crossing on Nov.12, where she entered Mexico, Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said during a press conference Monday.The image comes as the aspiring photographer’s disappearance took a curious turn after the Los Angeles police declared the 30-year-old a “voluntary missing person” and said she willfully crossed into Mexico to “step away from modern connectivity.”McDonnell said investigators reviewed various surveillance footage and interviewed multiple witnesses, who confirmed Kobayashi’s movements from when she landed in the Golden State on Nov.

8 to when she was last seen crossing into Mexico on Nov.12.“We’ve basically done everything we can do at this point,” McDonnell said, citing US Customs and Border Protection surveillance footage showing Kobayashi crossing the border Nov.

12.“She’s left the country and in another nation now.”McDonnell said that the LAPD’s investigation would not continue into Mexico but urged the public to come forward with any credible information about her whereabouts.Kobayashi went missing on Nov.8 after catching a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles, with a connecting flight that would ultimately take her to New York, where she planned to visit relatives.After she landed at LAX, she sent cryptic text messages to friends shortly before her disappearance, including one saying she’d had a “very intense spiritual awakening” and another claiming “deep hackers wiped my identity, stole all my funds.”However, McDonnell said inves...