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Alleged Palm Springs Clinic Bombing Accomplice Daniel Park Dies in Federal Custody

His passing leaves unanswered questions as investigators pursue details of the extremist attack plot.

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Overview

  • Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive on June 24 at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles and later pronounced dead at a local hospital; the Bureau of Prisons has not disclosed a cause of death.
  • Park had been indicted on charges of providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists after allegedly shipping about 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate in January and another 90 pounds days before the May 17 bombing.
  • Guy Edward Bartkus, motivated by anti-natalist and pro-mortalist beliefs, died in the explosion outside the American Reproductive Centers clinic that was classified by the FBI as an intentional act of terrorism.
  • Following the attack, Park fled to Poland and was arrested on June 3 upon his deportation, then transferred under pretrial status to Los Angeles on June 13.
  • Federal authorities are examining online forums where Park and Bartkus met and conducted bomb-making experiments in Twentynine Palms as part of the ongoing terrorism investigation.