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Authorities called the attack terrorism and said Bartkus left behind nihilistic writings that indicated views against procreation, an idea known as anti-natalism.

Here’s what to know about the case.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene.

The blast gutted the clinic and shattered the windows of nearby buildings along a palm tree-lined street. Passersby described a loud boom, with people screaming in terror and glass strewn along sidewalks of the upscale desert city.

Bartkus’ body was found near a charred vehicle.

Akil Davis, the assistant director in charge of the FBI鈥檚 Los Angeles field office, called it possibly the 鈥渓argest bombing scene that we鈥檝e had in Southern California.鈥�

There were no patients at the facility and all embryos were saved.

鈥淭his was a targeted attack against the IVF facility,鈥� Davis said Sunday. 鈥淢ake no mistake: we are treating this, as I said yesterday, as an intentional act of terrorism.鈥�

The investigation is ongoing.

Authorities executed a search warrant in Bartkus’ hometown of Twentynine Palms, a city of 28,000 residents northeast of Palm Springs with a large U.S. Marine Corps base.

Bartkus tried to livestream the explosion, but the attempt failed, the FBI said.

Authorities haven’t shared specifics about the explosives used to make the bomb and where Bartkus may have obtained them.

What were his views?

Authorities were working to learn more about Bartkus鈥� motives. They haven鈥檛 said if he intended to kill himself in the attack or why he chose the specific facility.

His writings communicated 鈥渘ihilistic ideations鈥� that were still being examined to determine his state of mind, said U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in the area. In general, nihilism suggests that life is meaningless.

He appeared to hold anti-natalist views, which include a belief that it is morally wrong for people to bring children into the world. The clinic he attacked provides services to help people get pregnant, including in vitro fertilization and fertility evaluations.

Some people with extreme anti-procreation views have a lack of purpose and a bleak feeling about their own lives 鈥渁nd they diagnose society as suffering in a similar way that they are,鈥� said Adam Lankford, a criminology professor at the University of Alabama. 鈥淓ssentially, they feel like we’re all doomed, that it’s all hopeless.鈥�

That hopelessness is a way for attackers to rationalize their violent actions, Lankford said Monday.