The Washington man who was charged with providing large amounts of chemicals used in a car bomb outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, last month was found dead Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles prison, according to the Department of Justice.
Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center in L.A., the DOJ said. Park was brought to the facility on June 13 after he was indicted for malicious destruction of property.
“Responding employees initiated life-saving measures,” the DOJ said. “Emergency medical services (EMS) were requested while life-saving efforts continued.”
Park was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, the DOJ said. Officials did not share Park’s cause of death, but said that the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service were both notified.
“No employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured and at no time was the public in danger,” the DOJ said.
Park, of Kent, Washington, was arrested in Poland this month after traveling there following the May 17 car bombing outside the American Reproductive Centers clinic in Palm Springs. He was then taken to the United States, where he was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist, federal prosecutors said.
Prosecutors alleged that Park supplied 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor commonly used to construct homemade bombs, to Guy Edward Bartkus, the primary suspect in the bombing. Bartkus, 25, was killed in the attack, and four other people were injured.
Officials said the bombing was an “intentional act of terrorism.” Bartkus was motivated by anti-natalist ideology, pro-mortalism and anti-pro-life ideology, prosecutors said, and Park allegedly shared similar views, according to Akil Davis, the assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.