Authorities Identify Suspect in Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Explosion
Investigators document the scene at the front of the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic following a bomb blast in Palm Springs, California, on May 17.
Photographer: David McNew/Getty ImagesA 25-year-old man the FBI believes was responsible for an explosion that ripped through a Southern California fertility clinic left behind “anti-pro-life” writings before carrying out an attack investigators called terrorism, authorities said Sunday.
Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, California, was identified by the FBI as the suspect in the apparent car bomb detonation Saturday that damaged the clinic in the upscale city of Palm Springs in the desert east of Los Angeles. His writings seemed to indicate anti-natalist views, which hold that people should not continue to procreate, authorities said.