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A Washington state man facing terrorism charges related to the bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs died after jumping off a balcony inside a federal detention facility in Los Angeles, according to sources familiar with the incident.Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, officials said. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has yet to announce a determined cause of death. Two sources, not authorized to discuss the death, told The Times that information gathered shows Park climbed onto a surface and then jumped off a high...

An accused co-conspirator in last month’s terror attack at a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic has died in federal custody, authorities confirmed. Daniel Park, 32, had been facing conspiracy charges for allegedly shipping explosive materials to Guy Edward Bartkus, who detonated a car bomb at the American Reproductive Centers clinic in the SoCal desert oasis. “Daniel Park was found unresponsive at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Los Angeles, California. Responding employees initiated life-saving measures. … Mr. Park was transported by EMS to a local hospital and subsequently pronounced deceased,” the Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. The...

The suspect arrested in connection to the bombing at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California has died in jail. Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles Tuesday morning. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. His cause of death is unclear. Park, of Seattle, Washington, was accused of supplying 180lbs of explosives to Guy Edward Bartkus, the bomber who died in the May 17 explosion at the American Reproductive Centers. He was taken into custody at New York's JFK Airport by the FBI and Port Authority Police on June 3 following the...

The alleged accomplice of Palm Springs bomber Guy Edward Bartkus died in a Los Angeles prison on Tuesday, according to authorities. Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in downtown L.A. around 7:30 a.m., according to a release from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. A cause of death was not disclosed. Park, a native of the Seattle area, was arrested on June 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York upon returning from Poland, federal officials said. He allegedly supplied Bartkus with 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate, which is a...

A recent episode of NBC’s crime drama “Law & Order” featured an IVF doctor left in an irreversible coma after her clinic was bombed by an angry pro-lifer who is retaliating against the clinic for destroying human embryos. But it’s clear that this storyline wasn’t given much critical thought; after all, if pro-lifers believe destroying unused embryos is murder, then it wouldn’t logically hold that they would bomb an IVF clinic filled with these stored, unused embryos. As Newsbusters reported, in the episode, a white man wearing a “Jeremy 15” bracelet was said to be the bomber, with three characters...