2025 Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Bomber's House

On May 17, 2025, a car bombing occurred at a reproductive center in Palm Springs, California, leaving one person near the vehicle dead and four others injured. The explosion was described as one of the largest bombing investigations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has investigated in Southern California since the Aliso Viejo package bombing that killed one person and seriously injured two others in 2018.

FBI officials identified 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus (September 1999 – May 17, 2025), a former computer technician from Twentynine Palms, California, with childhood ties to Waterbury, Connecticut, as the suspected perpetrator of the bombing; they described him as having "nihilistic views". Bartkus reportedly identified himself as the perpetrator of the bombing in a video posted online, in which he described himself as a "pro-mortalist", saying in a manifesto that people did not give consent to exist. He also reportedly left a 30-minute audio recording in which he explained his reasoning for the attack. The FBI stated after the fact that Bartkus was not on their radar. During a news conference on May 18, FBI officials stated that they believed that Bartkus was the person killed during the attack