Man accused in Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing dies in federal custody

A Washington state man accused of supplying chemicals used in last month’s bombing of a Palm Springs fertility clinic died Tuesday while in federal custody at a Los Angeles detention center, officials confirmed.

Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive at approximately 7:30 a.m. at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead by hospital personnel.

“Responding employees initiated life-saving measures. Emergency medical services (EMS) were requested while life-saving efforts continued,” the statement said.

Park was facing conspiracy charges in connection with the May 17 bombing outside American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic off North Indian Canyon Drive. He was accused of shipping approximately 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to the bomber, a 25-year-old Twentynine Palms man who died in the blast.

The Seattle resident had been taken into custody earlier this month at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after being deported from Poland, where he had traveled four days after the bombing, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced. Park arrived at the Los Angeles detention center on June 13 after being indicted for alleged malicious destruction of property.

Further details about the manner in which Park died were not immediately shared. The FBI and U.S. Marshals Service have been notified of his death, and no employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured, the Bureau of Prisons said.

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