According to those familiar with the case, a Washington state man who is charged with terrorism in connection with the Palm Springs reproductive clinic bombing died after he leaped from a balcony within a federal detention center in Los Angeles.
According to authorities, Daniel Park, 32, was discovered unconscious inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles at around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
A cause of death has not yet been announced by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. According to information obtained, Park climbed onto a surface and then leaped off a high balcony, mortally hurting himself, two people who were not authorized to discuss the death told The Times. The reason of death was initially revealed by TMZ.com.
According to a Department of Justice statement, responding personnel started life-saving procedures and requested emergency medical assistance while these were being carried out. After being taken by emergency medical services to a nearby hospital, hospital staff declared Mr. Park dead.
No other information regarding the cause of death was immediately available, and no one else was hurt.
Since his arrest at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport this month, Park has been in federal jail on charges of giving and attempting to give material support to a terrorist.
He was charged with assisting Guy Edward Bartkus in obtaining 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a precursor to explosives that can be used to make homemade bombs.
Bartkus, 25, is suspected of killing himself and injuring four people on May 17 when he detonated a bomb at American Reproductive Centers. A 250-yard debris field was produced by the explosion.
Authorities claim that Park fled the United States for Europe a few days after the explosion. He was eventually arrested by Polish police and sent back to the United States, where he was arrested when he got to New York. According to an FBI document, Park tried to hurt himself when Polish authorities confronted him. Before being moved to Los Angeles, Park first appeared in federal court in Brooklyn.
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The FBI claims that the accused bomber in the Palm Springs fertility clinic attack had access to a significant amount of chemical materials that were sold commercially.
In the days preceding the Palm Springs attack, Park allegedly paid for the shipment of an additional 90 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus after delivering approximately 180 pounds of the poison in January.
Park visited Bartkus in Twentynine Palms for two weeks in late January and early February, according to U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli, the chief federal prosecutor in Los Angeles. According to a federal criminal complaint, Bartkus studied the process of creating huge explosions with fuel and ammonium nitrate three days prior to Park’s arrival at his home.
FBI Assistant Director for Los Angeles Akil Davis claims that Park shared Bartkus’ beliefs and made posts about them on online forums as early as 2016.
Law enforcement sources and FBI case investigators describe Bartkus as having antinatalist beliefs.
According to Davis, they don’t think humans should exist.
According to Davis, authorities were able to determine Park’s involvement in the explosion through search warrants executed at his Kent, Washington, home following the bombing.
According to Davis, six parcels of ammonium nitrate were sent to Bartkus from Park in Seattle. According to him, authorities are awaiting the findings of an examination of the explosive precursor materials that Park delivered.
The FBI said that the Palm Springs explosion, which was strong enough to destroy structures a few blocks away, was likely the biggest bombing incident in Southern California, surpassing the 2018 Aliso Viejo day spa bombing.
