Suspect Identified in Palm Springs Bombing and Is Said to Have Died in Blast

A 25-year-old man has been identified as the suspect in the bombing on Saturday outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, Calif. The authorities said on Sunday that they believe the man died in the blast, which injured four other people and damaged buildings across the desert city’s downtown.

The suspect, Guy Edward Bartkus of Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif., was believed to have targeted the clinic. Officials called the bombing an act of terrorism by a man they said had “nihilistic ideations.”

The explosion shattered windows in businesses and homes in Palm Springs, which is known as a sunny vacation destination, and it sent vehicle fragments flying hundreds of feet in the air and across several blocks, officials said.