The researchers identified on Sunday a 25 -year -old man as a suspect in the bombing outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, while looking for the reason behind the explosion that damaged several blocks in the center and, they also believe it.
The suspect, Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, California, had “nihilista idacios,” the authorities said, and had been specifically addressed to the clinic. The authorities described the bombing as an act of terrorism and said they were examining writings that could be a relationship with the attack, which occurred on Saturday.
On a website that promotes the idea of finishing life, an audio recording presents a man who said he was going to bombard an in vitro fertilization clinic because he was angry with his own existence.
Three people familiar with the investigation said the agents are examining that website to try to verify if the bomber had made those statements.
On Sunday, Richard Bartkus, 75, the father of the suspect, said he believed that the voice in the recording was that of his son. Mr. Bartkus, or Yucca Valley, California, said he had not seen Son in 10 years and that he had no idea that his son had opinions of the child’s heroes expressed in the recording. Previously, Mr. Bartkus had said that he was surprised when a relative sent him a text message on Saturday that his son had involved the leg involved in the bombing.
Althehugh’s officials did not say that Guy Bartkus was the suspicious lonely, they did not look for ethers activities. They also said Sunday that there was no continuous threat to the community that involved this attack.
Mr. Bartkus described his son how to have a leg to a child he liked to play with small model rockets, and said that in September 2009, at age 9, his son ignited the home of the family while playing with games. “He burned the house in the Yucca Valley,” he said.
An article about the fire in the high quality star of the Yucca Valley said that the family lost everything, he thought Mr. Bartkus said no one was injured. His son was put on youth probation, but the incident was later eliminated from his history, he said.
Mr. Bartkus said that when he was a teenager, his son would make “stinky bombs” and “smoke bombs.”
“Nothing important, nothing like a ‘bomb’ bomb, but he built rockets, fired them in the air,” Bartkus said.
In 2016, a court ordered the Son to enter the therapy, thought that the reason and circumstances of the case are uncharge.
Mr. Bartkus said his son was impressionable and that he had allowed himself to be attracted by friends who put him in trouble. Once, for example, a friend whose parents had a demolition courtyard convinced his son to break cars there, Bartkus said.
He said that when his son reached his late adolescence, he built computers and worked with children from Special-Saneds as assistant to a local bus driver.
“He was dumb,” said Bartkus. “But he was a leader. He was a follower.” He added: “If someone appeared and said it was a good idea, it would be likely to accompany him.”
The ideas aspirated on the website with the recording about plans to bombard an IVF clinic are associated with a dark movement that promotes death and discourages the creation of a new life, said Brian Levin, Professor Emeritus and founder of the study of hatred and extremism.
“Within this movement, the IVF is certainly unfavorable, but so is procreative sex,” said Levin. “Hey, he probably went to an establishment that was more directly related to this twisted version of that philosophy.”
Levin said ideology could attract people who suffer from isolation or other mental health challenges and looking for an “institutional framework for thesis complaints.” Domestic terrorism is persecuted, he said, by socially isolated young men who are radicalized in online marginal communities.
“Our terrorism problem is a mental health problem,” Levin said.
On Sunday, residents and tourists walked through the center of Palm Springs, enjoying brunch in courtyards and sailing in gift stores. Just north of the center, several streets around the clinic were blocked while the researchers sifted through a debris field that included cars and human remains.
Almost 60 miles away in the palm trees of Twentynine, there were also street closures around a neighborhood near a house that Mr. Bartkus identified as Dianne Bartkus’s home, his ex -wife and the mother of the suspect. Several unmarked vehicles were parked in the middle of the road in an area where the authorities said they executed a search warrant.
Saturday’s explosion shattered the windows in businesses and houses in Palm Springs, and sent fragments of vehicles flying hundreds of feet in the air and through several blocks, the authorities said.
“This is probably the largest bombing scene we have had in southern California,” said Akil Davis, deputy director of the Fbis Los Angeles field office.
The four people who were injured had minor injuries and shake hands in the hospital’s leg, authorities said Sunday.
The understanding that a fertility clinic would be an objective for violence shook some patients during the weekend.
Vanda Chatterjee, a 39 -year -old graphic designer in Palm Springs, said he had recently resorted to surgery at the clinic and planned to return in a few months for the recovery of eggs.
“The clinic has been a place of cheerful anticipation for us, a space based on compassion, science and warmth,” he said.
Mrs. Chatterjee said she was disturbed for someone to try to impose their nihilist views on couples who hope to have a baby.
“This was just an attack on a building,” he said. “It was an attack on life itself and families that resort to medicine, science and love to create it.”
Devlin Barrett Contributed reports. Jack Begg Contributed research.
