A suspect who would have bombed outside a Californian fertility clinic on Saturday was identified as the 25 -year -old guy Edward Bartkus.
Bartkus was appointed suspect in the bombing outside a fertility clinic of Palm Springs, two sources of application of the law told Kcal News that the investigation with the survey.
The bombing, just outside the Palm Springs reproductive American American Center around 11 a.m., killed and several others injured. The explosion emptied the IVF clinic, which was hosted in a one -story building.
The authorities have described the suspect as having “nihilist intentions”. It was confirmed that Bartkus acted alone. His car was a 2010 Ford Fusion.
“It is essential because we need public help to identify the shortcomings of our investigation. We know where Mr. Bartkus was around 6 am, we know the calendar of his entry into the city; however, we need the public help to identify where he crossed the city before the explosion,” said Akil Davis, FBI head office,.
Sources have told Kcal that Bartkus would have declared in writings and recordings that he was against bringing people into the world against their will.
In a writing, Bartkus described being a “pro-mortalist” as a person who intends to provoke his own death as soon as possible in order to prevent your future suffering and, more importantly, the suffering that your existence will cause to all other sensitive beings “.
In addition to his writings, Bartkus also recorded a 30 -minute audio clip describing his motivations.
“I thought I would just make a recording explaining why I decided to bomb a building or an IVF clinic. Basically, it amounts to getting angry to exist and that, you know, no one had my consent to bring me here,” he said in the recording.
Bartkus continued by saying that it was “angry” that IVF clinics exist.
“These are people who have children after they sat there and thought about it. How more stupid can he get? ” he said.
In an interview The New York Times, Bartkus’ father Richard Bartkus said that he had not spoken to his son for over ten years.
The elder Bartkus also said that his son liked to play with matches, “stinking bombs” and “smoked bombs” in his adolescence.
“Nothing major, nothing like a bomb of” bomb “, but he built rockets, would shoot them in the air,” he added.
On another occasion, the suspect set fire to the family home, said Richard Bartkus in a separate interview with Ktla.
“After burning the house, he started to change a little, he lightly light. I was too strict for him, so he wanted to stay with mom until the divorce passed. Mom was indulgent,” he said.
He added that his son was easily influenced by others.
Dr. Maher Abdallah, who heads the fertility clinic for American breeding centers where the explosion has occurred, said The Associated Press In a telephone interview that all its staff was safe and taken into account.
The explosion damaged the office space of the practice, where it leads consultations with patients, but has left the IVF laboratory and all the stored embryos that are unharmed there.
The incident is the subject of an investigation as an act of terrorism, officials said.
Sources said Bartkus is a Twentynine Palms resident, who is home to a large navy base about an hour from Palm Springs. The FBI and the sheriff deputies of the county of San Bernardino also searched the house of Bartkus.
Bartkus tried to record or broadcast live, said a source AP.
According to several reports, the suspect died during the attack.
“Make no mistake: this is an act of intentional terrorism,” said Davis on Saturday.
“(This is probably one of the largest bombing surveys that we had in southern California,” added Davis.
The FBI did not say how he determined that the explosion was an act of terrorism, nor provided details on the writings left behind, or a possible reason for the attack.
An AK-47 and an ar-platform rifle were recovered on the explosion scene.
Officials said the explosion damaged the buildings with several houses. The car engine was blown on the other side of the street.
An owner of the local gallery, Tim Prendergast, said Los Angeles Times That he thought that the explosion was an earthquake.
“I was on Palm Canyon, and I saw the upper chest of a full body. There were many parts of the body, but they all walked away from the explosion of the car. I also noticed the hundreds and thousands of parts of the car radiating in all the directions of the circular motif of the car which was only interrupted by the rear facade of the American reproduction center, “he told newspaper.
Authorities should provide more information at a press conference on Sunday at 10 a.m. local time.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
