Who was Daniel Park? Alleged accomplice in Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing found dead in LA jail
Daniel Park was found dead at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. He was accused of aiding the bombing at a Palm Springs fertility clinic.
Daniel Park, the 32-year-old man accused of aiding last month’s bombing at a Palm Springs fertility clinic, was found dead Tuesday morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles.
Park was charged with supplying large quantities of chemicals used to make the explosives that detonated outside the clinic on May 17.
In a statement, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons said Park was found unresponsive around 7:30 a.m.
“Responding employees initiated life-saving measures. Emergency medical services (EMS) were requested while life-saving efforts continued. Mr. Park was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital personnel," the statement said.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Marshals Service were notified. No employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured and at no time was the public in danger," the statement added. “Mr. Park was a 32-year-old male who arrived at MDC Los Angeles on June 13, 2025, under pretrial status after being indicted for Malicious Destruction of Property.”
No cause of death was provided.
Who was Daniel Park?
Daniel Park was accused of supplying chemicals to Guy Edward Bartkus, the suspect who died in the May 17 car bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic.
According to investigators, the two men reportedly connected through fringe online forums over their shared anti-natalist beliefs.
Park is alleged to have shipped 180 pounds (about 82 kilograms) of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus in January, and purchased an additional 90 pounds (about 41 kilograms) just days before the explosion.
A federal complaint states that Park made multiple online purchases of ammonium nitrate between October 2022 and May 2025.
Authorities also said that Park traveled to Twentynine Palms, near Palm Springs, months before the attack to conduct explosive experiments in Bartkus’s garage.
Park fled the United States four days after the explosion. He was detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after being extradited from Poland. He was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists.
(With inputs from AP)
