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International Business Times
27-06-2025
- International Business Times
Daniel Park: Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Bombing Suspect's Cause of Death Is Revealed after He Was Found Bleeding and Unconscious in Prison
The man who supplied ammunition and explosives to the Palm Springs fertility clinic bomber has reportedly died after jumping from an upper floor of the prison. Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, according to TMZ. The Seattle resident reportedly climbed onto a table on an upper level of the facility and then jumped from the balcony, plummeting to the ground floor. However, the exact number of floors Park fell from before bleeding to his death still remains unclear. Prison staff tried to resuscitate him, and he was transported to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Tragic End Park was accused of providing 180 pounds of explosives to Guy Edward Bartkus, the man responsible for the May 17 bombing at the American Reproductive Centers, who died in the blast. He was arrested by FBI agents and Port Authority Police at New York's JFK Airport on June 3, shortly after the incident. Park had been extradited from Warsaw, Poland, back to the United States. Although he was a U.S. citizen, it remains unclear whether he had any personal or legal ties to Poland, according to U.S. District Attorney Bilal A. Essayli. Bartkus, the main suspect in the case, died in the explosion after a silver Ford Fusion sedan detonated. Earlier this month, FBI Director Akil Davis revealed that investigators found Park had sent six shipments of ammonium nitrate—a chemical commonly used in bomb-making—from Washington State to Bartkus in California. Davis also said that Park was "in possession of a similar recipe" to the one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. He identified both Park and Bartkus as followers of the anti-natalist ideology, a belief system that opposes human reproduction and questions the value of human existence. Opposed to Birth and Life The FBI believes that Park and Bartkus were carrying out explosive experiments inside a garage in Twentynine Palms, a major U.S. Marine Corps base where Bartkus resided. The blast injured at least five people and was described by authorities as an "intentional act of terrorism." The explosive formula found in Park's possession closely resembled the one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In that attack, Timothy McVeigh—a former Army soldier and security guard—detonated a massive bomb in a rental truck outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and injuring hundreds more. According to authorities, Bartkus, the IVF clinic bomber, described himself in his writings as a "pro-mortalist"—someone who seeks to end their own life as soon as possible to avoid personal suffering and, more importantly, to prevent the harm their existence might inflict on other sentient beings.
Toronto Sun
25-06-2025
- Health
- Toronto Sun
Man charged with supplying chemicals to fertility clinic bomber dies in custody
Published Jun 24, 2025 • 3 minute read The damaged front of the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic stands following a bomb blast on May 17, 2025 in Palm Springs, Calif. Photo by David McNew / Getty Images LOS ANGELES — A Washington state man who was charged with aiding the bomber of a fertility clinic in Southern California died Tuesday in federal custody, just weeks after his arrest, prison officials said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Daniel Park, 32, was accused of supplying chemicals to Guy Edward Bartkus of California, the bomber, who died in the May 17 explosion. Park, of suburban Seattle, was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles Tuesday morning and was pronounced dead at a hospital, the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. No cause of death was provided. The two men connected in fringe online forums over their shared beliefs against human procreation, investigators said. The blast gutted the clinic in Palm Springs, east of Los Angeles, and shattered the windows of nearby buildings, with officials calling the attack terrorism. The facility was closed, and no embryos were damaged. Park shipped about 82 kg of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus in January and bought about another 41 kg and had it shipped to him days before the explosion, investigators said. Park purchased ammonium nitrate online in several transactions between October 2022 and May 2025, according to a federal complaint. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Authorities said Park traveled to Twentynine Palms, Calif., near Palm Springs, to experiment with explosives in Bartkus' garage months before the attack. Read More Three days before Park visited him in January, Bartkus asked an AI chat application about explosives, detonation velocity, diesel and gasoline mixtures, the complaint said. The discussion centred on how to create the most powerful blast. Park was taken into custody at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on June 3, after he was extradited from Poland, where he fled four days after the attack. Park had been charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. He had been at Metropolitan Detention Center since June 13, federal prison officials said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, which is prosecuting the case, referred questions about Park's death to the Bureau of Prisons. Park and Bartkus bonded over a 'shared belief that people shouldn't exist,' Akil Davis, the FBI's assistant director in charge, said earlier this month. They believed in anti-natalism, a fringe theory that opposes childbirth and population growth and contends that people should not continue to procreate. Officials said Bartkus intentionally targeted the American Reproductive Centers, a clinic that provides services to help people get pregnant, including in vitro fertilization and fertility evaluations. Park appeared to be a frequent poster in an anti-natalist Reddit forum going back nearly a decade, according to court papers. In 2016, he spoke of recruiting others to the movement, which he described as hopeful. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. According to court papers, he wrote: 'When people are lost and distraught, death is always an option.' RECOMMENDED VIDEO Relatives told federal investigators that Park had made 'pro-mortalist' statements since high school, according to the complaint. More recently, in March, he posted in the forum to say he was seeking to find fellow anti-natalists in and around Washington state to 'start some protests or just any in-person events,' according to court papers. The post did not receive any public comments. The Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles is also used to detain people arrested for immigration violations. It's been the site of many recent protests over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, and Trump has deployed the National Guard to stand guard outside the facility. Toronto Blue Jays NHL Columnists Editorial Cartoons Toronto & GTA
UPI
24-06-2025
- UPI
Alleged accomplice of fertility clinic bomber dies in federal custody
1 of 2 | The American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic is damaged after last month's suicide bombing, in Palm Springs, Calif. Daniel Park, the alleged accomplice who provided the explosives, died Tuesday while in federal custody, according to the Bureau of Prisons. File Photo by Allison Dinner/EPA-EFE June 24 (UPI) -- Daniel Jongyon Park, the Washington state man charged with providing explosive materials to a suicide bomber who attacked a California fertility clinic last month, died Tuesday while in federal custody. Park, 32, was found unresponsive inside his cell around 7:30 a.m. PDT, at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, where jail staff immediately began life-saving measures, the Bureau of Prisons announced in a statement. He was pronounced dead after being transported to a local hospital. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Marshals Service are investigating Park's death. No details have been released and a cause of death has not been determined. Park, of Kent, Wash., was the alleged accomplice of Palm Springs bomber Guy Edward Bartkus, who detonated a vehicle bomb outside the American Reproductive Centers on May 17. Several people were injured and Bartkus was killed. After the attack, Park traveled to Poland before being deported back to the United States. He was arrested on June 4 after arriving on a flight to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, and was moved to the Los Angeles detention center on June 13. Earlier this month, Attorney General Pam Bondi thanked the Polish government for returning Park to the United States to face charges. "Bringing chaos and violence to a facility that exists to help women and mothers is a particularly cruel, disgusting crime that strikes at the very heart of our shared humanity," she said. Park was indicted for alleged malicious destruction of property and charged with supplying Bartkus with 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound used in explosives. Bartkus was allegedly motivated by anti-natalist views that people should not be born without their consent. According to the Justice Department, Park shared the same beliefs.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Yahoo
FBI arrest suspect linked to California fertility clinic bombing
STORY: :: June 4, 2025 :: Los Angeles :: A man who allegedly provided chemicals for the California fertility clinic bombing has been arrested :: Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California "My office and the FBI are announcing the arrest of Daniel Park, a Washington state resident charged in a federal criminal complaint with Title 18, the United States Code Section 2339A, providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist, the man who committed a suicide car bombing of the American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs, California." :: Palm Springs, California :: May 18, 2025 "The sole fatality of last month's act of terror was the bomber himself, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, California. The bomb injured numerous victims, destroyed the clinic's building, and damaged surrounding buildings and areas, causing a debris field of approximately 250 yards in size. During the investigation, law enforcement learned of Bartkus' pro-mortalist, anti-natalist, and anti-pro-life extremist ideology. We also learned that the bomber had help. Mr. Park, who shares Bartkus' extremist beliefs, is accused of shipping approximately 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor commonly used to construct homemade bombs, to Bartkus." :: Akil Davis, Assistant Director, FBI's Los Angeles Field Office "Park was in possession of an explosive recipe that was similar to the Oklahoma City bomb." "I think our biggest fear is that, is fear of the unknown in that these two subjects weren't really being tracked by any law enforcement agency and the fact that they could, on their own, put together such a destructive device." The suspect, Daniel Park, a 32-year-old man from Washington state, was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the officials said. He will make an initial appearance in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday afternoon and eventually face charges in California. Park had been detained in Poland and deported by Polish authorities. U.S. officials were not clear why he had traveled to Poland and said he was not in southern California on the day of the bombing. Officials alleged that Park secured 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate for Guy Bartkus, the primary suspect in the bombing. Ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, is also a material commonly used to construct homemade bombs, they said. The officials charged Park with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist. Bartkus, 25, died in the blast. A bomb detonated shortly before 11 a.m. local time on May 17 in or near a car parked outside the fertility clinic, operated by American Reproductive Center. In addition to the death of the primary suspect, several other people were injured, according to authorities.
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Yahoo
'They Don't Believe People Should Exist,' FBI Says of Palm Springs Bomb Suspects
'They Don't Believe People Should Exist,' FBI Says of Palm Springs Bomb Suspects originally appeared on L.A. Mag. A second man who helped a domestic terrorist plan what officials call a "suicide car bombing" outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic last month was hunted down in Warsaw, Poland, federal officials announced Wednesday. Daniel Park, 32, of Kent, Washington left the country four days after his alleged co-conspirator, Guy Edward Bartkus, died in the blast outside American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic on May 17, officials say. Both men shared nihilistic and anti-life ideologies and practiced building the bomb in Bartkus's Twentynine Palms garage in late January and early February, federal officials said at a press conference Wednesday morning. "They do not believe people should exist," FBI Assistant Director for Los Angeles Akil Davis told reporters Wednesday morning. Davis said that Park, like Bartkus, posted nihilistic ideologies on Internet forums dating back to 2016. Park, investigators learned after last month's blast - which left a 250-yard debris field in the bustling Palm Springs block - secured 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate for their planned sent a total of six shipments of bomb making materials from Seattle to Twentynine Palms, officials said, before and after he spent two weeks in Southern California at Bartkus's home in Twentynine Palms. The duo practiced building the car bomb based on the ammonium nitrate–fuel oil bomb recipe that was used in the 1995 homegrown terror attack in Oklahoma City, the FBI says. Officials in Poland captured Park on May 30, said United States Attorney Bilal Essayli, and he was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport by U.S. federal officials Tuesday night. He is expected to appear in a Brooklyn federal courtroom Wednesday before his removal to California to face federal charges. Davis said the FBI did not have either man on their radar until after the Palm Springs attack and were taken aback that the duo could put "such a destructive device" together without raising any red flags. That raises "fear of the unknown" for homeland security officials, he said. That fear, says the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, is well-founded. "Those who seek to carry out nihilistic violence often do not fit neatly into the ideologically-based classifications that have been adopted by counterterrorism agencies, creating the potential for them to 'slip through the cracks,"' the think tank wrote in a report released last month, which also noted that those "engaged with subcultures of nihilistic violence may also interact with ideologically-motivated communities online including neo-Nazis." The Palm Springs bomb gutted the facility and shattered the windows of nearby buildings along a palm tree-lined street. The suspect was recovered in a burnt-out 2010 Ford Fusion outside the bombing scene, authorities say, but all of the embryos inside were saved by law enforcement officials. Bartkus attempted to livestream the explosion and left behind writings that suggested he believed people should not procreate, the FBI says. The case is being charged as an act of terrorism. A study released last year by West Point raises alarms about nihilism on the rise in the U.S. This story was originally reported by L.A. Mag on Jun 4, 2025, where it first appeared.
