Daniel Park, the man facing charges for allegedly assisting in the Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing last month, has died in federal custody according to a statement from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Park, 32, was discovered unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles early on Tuesday morning; despite the prompt life-saving efforts by the responding employees and the emergency medical services, Park was pronounced dead soon after arriving at a local hospital, as reported by CBS News Los Angeles.
The FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, which were notified about Park’s death, have not provided a cause of death at this time, and no further injuries to jail employees or other inmates were reported in line with the information shared by the Bureau of Prisons, Park, having been indicted for malicious destruction of property, was arrested last month after returning from Poland and was subsequently charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist in connection to the Palm Springs attack as per NBC News coverage.
Prosecutors alleged Park supplied 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate to Guy Edward Bartkus, who died in the resulting explosion outside the American Reproductive Centers clinic which, although it left a 250-yard debris field, miraculously, did not harm clinic staff or the stored reproductive material within the facility as FOX 11 detailed the backstory, highlighting the anti-natalist ideology allegedly shared by both men and their participation in online forums discussing such viewpoints.
While authorities continue to investigate Park's death at the detention facility, his alleged connection to the Palm Springs bombing remains a reminder of the potential for online extremism to manifest in real-world violence, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, Akil Davis, earlier this month revealed that Park and Bartkus, spending years collecting ammonium nitrate and running bomb-making experiments in Bartkus’ garage, had connected through their shared anti-procreation beliefs prior to the attack, which has been considered an intentional act of terrorism, as documented by both KTLA and NBC News reports.
