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Father of Palm Springs fertility session bombing fishy speaks retired
The begetter of Guy Edward Bartkus is speaking retired aft quality that his lad is the idiosyncratic investigators judge to beryllium the fishy successful the bombing astatine a Palm Springs fertility clinic connected Saturday.
Richard Bartkus says that helium hasn't spoken to his 25-year-old lad successful much than a decennary and that helium is not the idiosyncratic helium remembers.
"He tried to assistance people," Bartkus said of his son. "After Twentynine Palms helium conscionable changed."
He was unaware that his lad was a fishy successful the monolithic probe that sprawled crossed Southern California connected Saturday, which is inactive ongoing astatine his son's location successful Twentynine Palms. He was besides unaware that his lad is believed to beryllium dormant pursuing the incident.
"It didn't accidental thing astir him dying and I work aboriginal that helium died," Bartkus said portion speaking with CBS News Los Angeles.
Guy Edward Bartkus, the 25-year-old Twentynine Palms antheral who FBI investigators judge liable for the bombing extracurricular of a Palm Springs fertility session connected Saturday, May 17, 2025.
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FBI investigators accidental that Guy Bartkus packed his 2010 metallic Ford Fusion with explosives earlier making the hour-long thrust to Palm Springs, wherever they judge helium intentionally parked extracurricular of American Reproductive Centers, an IVF clinic.
Investigators accidental that they're inactive digging done a bid of Bartkus' online posts and writings, which look to bespeak anti-natalist beliefs, a presumption that radical should not proceed to person children.
"We request the public's assistance successful identifying gaps successful our investigation," said Akil Davis, adjunct manager successful complaint of the FBI's Los Angeles tract bureau successful a press league connected Sunday. "We cognize wherever Mr. Bartkus was astatine astir 6 a.m. We cognize the timeline of erstwhile helium entered the city, but we request the public's assistance identifying wherever helium traversed wrong the metropolis earlier the detonation went off."
Damage from the detonation extracurricular of a Palm Springs fertility session connected May 17, 2025.
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As that probe continues, Bartkus says that his lad was fascinated with however things worked arsenic a kid. Barktus besides said that erstwhile his lad was 9 years old, helium accidentally burned their household location down portion trying a instrumentality with matches but ne'er noticed immoderate reddish flags.
"He would marque a fume bomb, stink bomb, kid things," his begetter said. "He didn't marque thing dangerous. When I accidental bomb, it wasn't similar a weaponry bomb. It was similar thing you conscionable propulsion connected the crushed and it pops."
Bartkus says that bombing a building, what the FBI is present calling the largest successful Southern California history, is thing helium ne'er imagined his lad would do.
"I don't cognize what changes ... possibly a girl, possibly radical helium was hanging retired with up there. It wasn't him. Before that, Guy was much for helping people," Bartkus said.
Federal investigators accidental that they're handling the probe arsenic an planetary enactment of terrorism. They did not person a timeline for erstwhile the vicinity surrounding Bartkus' Twentynine Palms location would beryllium reopened arsenic they continued to stitchery evidence.
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