Suspect believed to be only person killed in California fertility clinic blast, FBI says

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 18, 2025 1:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

The FBI said connected Sunday that it believes the fishy successful Saturday's detonation astatine a California fertility clinic, which it described arsenic an "intentional enactment of terrorism," was the lone idiosyncratic killed successful the incident.

Akil Davis, adjunct manager astatine the FBI's Los Angeles tract office, said Sunday that the bureau believes the suspect, identified arsenic 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, died successful the attack. Officials said 4 others were injured.

Saturday's blast gutted the single-storey American Reproductive Centers session successful upscale Palm Springs, though a doc told The Associated Press its unit were safe.

"Thank God contiguous happened to beryllium a time that we person nary patients," Dr. Maher Abdallah, who leads the clinic, told AP successful a telephone interrogation connected Saturday.

Officials said connected Sunday that nary embryos stored wrong the session were harmed by the blast.

Investigators said the suspect posted writings online and attempted to grounds the explosion, though authorities said the video failed to upload online. An authoritative who was not authorized to sermon details of the onslaught spoke connected information of anonymity to The Associated Press.

"The taxable had nihilistic ideations, and this was a targeted onslaught against the IVF facility," Davis said connected Sunday.

"Make nary mistake. We are treating this ... arsenic an intentional enactment of terrorism."