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Alleged Palm Springs Clinic Bombing Accomplice Dies in Federal Custody

FBI investigators classify the May 17 explosion as domestic terrorism with Park’s cause of death still undisclosed.

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Overview

  • Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on June 24 and was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, the Bureau of Prisons said.
  • Park was accused of supplying about 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Guy Edward Bartkus, who used the chemicals to construct a car bomb that devastated the American Reproductive Centers clinic.
  • Guy Edward Bartkus died in the May 17 blast outside the Palm Springs fertility center, an attack that caused major property damage and injured four people.
  • Authorities say Park and Bartkus shared extremist anti-natalist views and conducted bomb-making experiments together in Bartkus’s garage in Twentynine Palms.
  • The FBI continues to investigate the bombing’s planning and execution, and federal officials have not released any details on the cause or manner of Park’s death.