At approximately 9:45 p.m., a bomb exploded at the Otherside Lounge lesbian bar that damaged the building and destroyed several cars in the parking lot.
The Otherside Lounge was a nightclub located on Piedmont Road in northeast Atlanta that catered primarily to lesbians and other LGBT patrons.
[4] Police arrived shortly after the explosion and discovered a second bomb inside a backpack hidden in some bushes in the nightclub's parking lot.
[5] The woman had been wounded by a nail that had severed her brachial artery; speaking later of the incident, she stated, "I almost bled to death in the bar".
In the immediate aftermath, law enforcement put up crime scene tape and blocked traffic along Piedmont Road to search for clues.
[11] In the letter, the group detailed their militant opposition to homosexuality and abortions and threatened "total war" against the U.S. federal government.
[2] In addition to the Army of God, on February 22, a voicemail was left at the Phoenix, Arizona-based Gay Community Yellow Pages that claimed that the Los Angeles-based Sons of Confederate Klan (a neo-Nazi group) had been responsible for the attack.
[2] In a June 10 press conference, investigators expressed confidence in the belief that the abortion clinic, nightclub, and park bombing were all perpetrated by the same bomber.
At the time, Rudolph was still on the run, and, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, "the object of one of the largest sustained manhunts in FBI history".
[4] According to a 2017 article from The Georgia Voice, "Between the loss of cashflow, equity and paying for renovations, the bombing cost Beverly [one of the owners of the nightclub] about $5.8 million.