Posted on 05/17/2025 5:36:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
PALM SPRINGS — A suspected bomb blast that authorities believe was “an intentional act of violence” outside a fertility clinic left one person dead and at least four reportedly injured in Palm Springs on Saturday.
FBI assistant director for Los Angeles Akil Davis said agency’s joint terrorism investigators were on the scene. He described the incident as a significant blast that caused damage several blocks away.
The blast was reportedly felt more than two miles away and severely damaged the clinic and several other buildings. The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. at North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive, Palm Springs officials said.
Photos from the scene showed extensive damage to American Reproductive Centers, a fertility clinic and in vitro fertilization lab across the street from Desert Regional Medical Center. An office building two blocks from the blast had its windows blown out, as did a Denny’s five blocks away.
Palm Springs officials said that the explosion came from either inside or near a car parked on Indian Canyon outside the clinic.
“The blast appears to be an intentional act of violence,” Palm Springs Fire Chief Paul Alvarado said.
Palm Springs Police Chief Andrew Mills described the blast of an act of terrorism but that it was isolated incident, adding there was no larger threat to the public.
Authorities said they are still trying to identify the deceased person. Davis decline to comment on whether that person considered the possible suspect.
Numerous law enforcement agencies were on scene, including Palm Springs police, the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Investigators, bomb technicians and an evidence response team from the FBI were being deployed, the agency said in a statement on X.
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Disgruntled customer of the fertility clinic?
Bankrupt after multiple failed IVF attempts?
Does sound personal from what little information they have released.
Any kind of gas or anything that would build up inside one of those clinics?
With Trump in the White House acts of violence might be political acts designed to paint the POTUS and or Republicans in a bad light.
The feds are involved in the probe I hope they get it right and I want to believe that this DOJ will not twist anything the wrong way.
Sounds like something personal.
I suspect the dead body is the perp.
Big blast. Looks to me the car was parked in the back very close the building. When it was said and done the front of the building was blasted onto the street and what was left of the bomber and car blew back 20-30 feet away from the building.
It was a mostly peaceful LARGE bomb blast.
Karol Markowicz
Breaking: The suspect in the fertility clinic bombing is Guy Edward Bartkus, 25 of Twentynine Palms, California. He left a rambling message about how he never consented to being born.
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Obvious right wing extremist. 🤡
Don't know if this is satire or not.
Bomber of California fertility clinic identified, described himself as pro-mortalist
WE shouldn't consent to him staying alive.
Crazy person. Nobody on the planet consented to being born. Not one.
I consider IVF abortion on steroids. Good riddance.
Nitrogen, maybe. No kaboom.
Interesting.
????????? WTH are you talking about?
Typically, some 15 to 25 fertilized and living embryos (eggs) are produced, then 1 is selected and implanted.
The others?
Thrown away.
Own goal!
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