Daniel Park, alleged confederate in Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing, is discovered lifeless in jail
The Washington man who was charged with offering giant quantities of chemical compounds utilized in a automobile bomb outdoors a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, final month was discovered lifeless Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles jail, in accordance with the Division of Justice.
Daniel Park, 32, was discovered unresponsive on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in L.A., the DOJ mentioned. Park was dropped at the ability on June 13 after he was indicted for malicious destruction of property.
“Responding staff initiated life-saving measures,” the DOJ mentioned. “Emergency medical providers (EMS) have been requested whereas life-saving efforts continued.”
Park was taken to a hospital the place he was pronounced lifeless, the DOJ mentioned. Officers didn’t share Park’s explanation for loss of life, however mentioned that the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service have been each notified.
“No staff or different incarcerated people have been injured and at no time was the general public in peril,” the DOJ mentioned.
Park, of Kent, Washington, was arrested in Poland this month after touring there following the Might 17 automobile bombing outdoors the American Reproductive Facilities clinic in Palm Springs. He was then taken to america, the place he was charged with offering and trying to supply materials help to a terrorist, federal prosecutors mentioned.
Prosecutors alleged that Park equipped 270 kilos of ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor generally used to assemble do-it-yourself bombs, to Man Edward Bartkus, the first suspect within the bombing. Bartkus, 25, was killed within the assault, and 4 different individuals have been injured.
Officers mentioned the bombing was an “intentional act of terrorism.” Bartkus was motivated by anti-natalist ideology, pro-mortalism and anti-pro-life ideology, prosecutors mentioned, and Park allegedly shared comparable views, in accordance with Akil Davis, the assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles area workplace.