The father of Guy Edward Bartkus, the suspect in the Palm Springs in vitro fertilization facility explosion, says that he was "shocked" when a relative reached out and said his son was implicated in the bombing.

Speaking to the New York Times, Richard Bartkus said that he hadn’t seen his son in a decade. He told NYT that, growing up, Guy liked “tinkering with small model rockets” and once set the family’s home on fire while playing with matches when he was nine years old.

As a teenager, Guy would make “smoke bombs” and “stink bombs” but never anything “major.”

“Nothing like a ‘bomb’ bomb, but he’d build rockets [and] shoot them in the air,” Richard Bartkus told the outlet.

The New York Times reported that Bartkus, 75, said that his son was always “impressionable” and had often allowed

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