Explosion at fertility clinic in Palm Springs, at least one dead

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Emergency personnel are responding to an explosion near the American Reproductive Centers building in Palm Springs, California.
The incident has rattled homes and startled residents, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported. Some residents are reporting smoke and an odor, according to the outlet.
Palm Springs Police Department told the Desert Sun said the explosion at about 11 a.m. local time in downtown Palm Springs, which was felt as far as 2 miles away, appears to be a car explosion by the American Reproductive Centers clinic. Lt. William Hutchinson said that there appears to be at least one fatality.
"Everything is in question, whether this is an act of terrorism," he said on the scene.
Palm Springs Police and Fire crews are currently on the scene. The city of Palm Springs advised residents to stay away from the area so that emergency crews can work the incident.
According to it's website, American Reproductive Centers started in 2006 and is "Coachella Valley’s first and only full-service fertility center & IVF lab."

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neger psykolog said:
I don't buy conspiracy theories, nigga knew he was facing down some serious charges and offed himself or he got the "new fish" treatment in prison and knew he was going to have that for like 20 years and was like fuck that.
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I'm going with "OD on fent or fent laced accessories unintentionally" theory personally.
 
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neger psykolog said:
I don't buy conspiracy theories, nigga knew he was facing down some serious charges and offed himself or he got the "new fish" treatment in prison and knew he was going to have that for like 20 years and was like fuck that.
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It might have even been accidental too. Fent and even stronger shit is all over leaf prisons, I don't imagine it's not all over the US prisons and jails. Buddy could have accidently OD'd and not been found right away.
 
yeah I could see him getting a similar to pedo treatment simply because seriously, who could respect that? Seriously, killing your wife for cheating, swindling old ladies, and all sorts of shit could be seen in prison as....if not GOOD, at least understandable. If you kill others because you hate all life, I bet a convict was all "you hate living? here let me fix that" *shank shank*

Especially because really, nobody could possibly defend that.

Did we get a mugshot on this fuck? I think this dumb bastard could be a contestant for "put out to pasture" julays, especially if he was murdered.
 
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neger psykolog said:
I don't buy conspiracy theories, nigga knew he was facing down some serious charges and offed himself or he got the "new fish" treatment in prison and knew he was going to have that for like 20 years and was like fuck that.
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When Park was confronted by Polish authorities, he attempted to harm himself, according to an FBI affidavit.
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He already tried to self-harm in Poland. He most likely killed himself.
 
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Accused Palm Springs bomb accomplice jumped to his death from prison balcony, sources say
Los Angeles Times (archive.ph)
By Richard Winton
2025-06-26 20:04:31GMT
A Washington state man facing terrorism charges related to the bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs died after jumping off a balcony inside a federal detention facility in Los Angeles, according to sources familiar with the incident.

Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, officials said.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has yet to announce a determined cause of death. Two sources, not authorized to discuss the death, told The Times that information gathered shows Park climbed onto a surface and then jumped off a high balcony, fatally injuring himself. TMZ.com first reported the cause of death.

“Responding employees initiated life-saving measures, emergency medical services were requested while life-saving measures continued,” according to a statement from the Department of Justice. “Mr. Park was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital personnel.”

No one else was injured and no further details on the cause of death were immediately available.

Park had been in federal custody since his arrest at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York this month and was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist.

He was accused of helping Guy Edward Bartkus secure 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor that can be used to construct homemade bombs.

Bartkus, 25, is suspected of detonating a bomb at American Reproductive Centers on May 17, killing himself and injuring four people. The blast created a debris field across 250 yards.

Days after the bombing, authorities say, Park left the U.S. for Europe. Polish law enforcement eventually detained him and deported him back to the United States, where he was taken into custody upon arriving in New York. When Park was confronted by Polish authorities, he attempted to harm himself, according to an FBI affidavit. Park made his initial appearance in federal court in Brooklyn before being transferred to Los Angeles.

Park was accused of shipping about 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate in January and later paying for an additional 90 pounds of the chemical to be shipped to Bartkus in the days leading up to the Palm Springs attack.

U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, said Park spent two weeks visiting Bartkus in Twentynine Palms in late January and early February. Three days before Park arrived at his house, according to a federal criminal complaint, Bartkus researched how to make powerful explosions using ammonium nitrate and fuel.

According to FBI Assistant Director for Los Angeles Akil Davis, Park had a similar ideology to Bartkus and posted about these ideologies on internet forums dating to 2016.

FBI case investigators, as well as law enforcement sources, characterize Bartkus as having “antinatalist” ideations.

“They don’t believe people should exist,” Davis said.

Search warrants conducted at Park’s residence in Kent, Wash., in the wake of the bombing led agents to identify his role in the explosion, according to Davis.

Davis said six packages of ammonium nitrate were shipped from Park in Seattle to Bartkus. He said officials are awaiting the results of an analysis of the explosive precursor chemicals shipped from Park.

The FBI described the Palm Springs blast — powerful enough to damage buildings several blocks away — as “probably the largest bombing scene that we’ve had in Southern California,” eclipsing the 2018 bombing of a day spa in Aliso Viejo.
 
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AnOminous said:
Surprised they'd let someone supposedly suicidal have access to a balcony high enough to jump from it.
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I'm having a bit of a thunk here. So one version of events says he jumped off a table up on a balcony to the floor below. The other version is they found him unresponsive in his cell.

Man who was charged in connection with fertility clinic bombing died by suicide
NBC News (archive.ph)
By Phil Helsel
2025-06-26 23:49:31GMT

Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in a jail cell Tuesday after his arrest in the bombing in Palm Springs, California.
A suspect in the bombing at a California fertility clinic who was found dead in a federal detention center this week died by suicide, Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office records show.

Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday and pronounced dead at a hospital, the U.S. Justice Department said.

The medical examiner’s office listed the manner of death Thursday as suicide and the cause as blunt force trauma.

A spokesperson for the medical examiner's office said it could not provide more details about how Park died, because the medical examiner's investigation is ongoing and a report is not finished.

The federal Bureau of Prisons, which is the law enforcement agency investigating Park's death, said it did not have any additional information to share Thursday.

Park was arrested on June 3 on allegations that he supplied materials used by another man to make a car bomb that was detonated outside an American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic on May 17. The bomber, Guy Edward Bartkus, died in the blast.

Park had been jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles after he was arrested in Poland, where he fled after the bombing, and flown back to the United States. He was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists.

The FBI called the bombing an act of terrorism. Bartkus is believed to have been motivated by an "anti-natalism" ideology, officials have said. Anti-natalism refers to the belief that no one should have children.

Park shared those views, the Justice Department has said, and he shipped 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus and paid for the shipment of an additional 90 pounds before the bombing.

Ammonium nitrate is a fertilizer that can be used in explosives. The substance was also used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which targeted a federal building and killed 168 people.
Fertility Clinic Bombing Suspected Accomplice Jumped to His Death ... From Prison Upper Level
TMZ (archive.ph)
By TMZ Staff
2025-06-25 16:25:56GMT
The Seattle man accused of being involved in the bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs last month was found dead in the Los Angeles federal prison Tuesday ... and now we have a better idea how he died.

Federal sources tell TMZ ... Daniel Park -- who was being housed in the Metropolitan Detention Center downtown -- stepped up on a table on an upper tier of the facility and jumped ... plummeting to the ground floor.

Prison staff attempted life-saving measures ... but authorities said the 32-year-old was declared dead at the hospital later that day. It's unclear how many stories he fell.

Park was accused of providing 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate to the primary suspect -- Guy Edward Bartkus, who authorities say carried out the May 17 car bomb attack. Four people were injured in the explosion -- but Bartkus, of Twentynine Palms, California, was the only person killed in the blast.

Bartkus reportedly held "anti-natalist" views, meaning he thought humans need to stop procreating. He is reported to have left behind "anti-pro-life" writings before he allegedly set off the bomb.

While the physical clinic was damaged ... no embryos were harmed.
 
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you BROKE my LIFE
do me a favore….
Call the CO
adress: 180 N Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tell them to go down Cell Block C to Bottom Level
im soo sorry<3

God I remember too much internet shit.
 
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clipartfan92 said:
I'm having a bit of a thunk here. So one version of events says he jumped off a table up on a balcony to the floor below. The other version is they found him unresponsive in his cell.
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Okay maybe I took off my tinfoil hat a little too soon.
 
1. Weird, did he jump or just die in his cell?
2. WTF is in the water in WA? Seems like every other weird ass news story lately has a WA angle.
 
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Park shared those views, the Justice Department has said, and he shipped 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus and paid for the shipment of an additional 90 pounds before the bombing.
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Did someone else ask him for explosive supplies?
 
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