The man accused of aiding the Palm Springs fertility clinic bomber died by suicide, according to an autopsy released Thursday.
A Los Angeles County coroner’s report said Daniel Park died from “blunt traumatic injuries,” while providing few other details.
However, the news site TMZ quoted “federal sources” who said Park jumped from a table on an upper tier of the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons had announced Park’s death on Tuesday, June 24. That report said only that Park was found unresponsive at 7:30 a.m. before he was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
Federal prosecutors accused Park, 32, of sending 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical typically used as fertilizer, to Guy Edward Bartkus. The FBI says Bartkus used the chemicals to blow up a fertility clinic in Palm Springs on May 17, killing himself and injuring four others. Park, of Kent, Washington, also purchased an additional 90 pounds of the chemical that was shipped to Bartkus, investigators said.
After fleeing to Poland in the days following the bombing, Park was arrested by Polish authorities and turned over to United States custody on June 2.
Like Bartkus, he believed in fringe theories that idealize death and lament new life because of the suffering inherent to the human condition. Park once posted online that “death is always an option” for people who are “lost and distraught,” potentially signifying his views on suicide.
The FBI characterized the attack on the American Reproductive Centers as a targeted terrorist attack.
Sam Morgen covers the city of Palm Springs for The Desert Sun. Reach him at smorgen@gannett.com.
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