Welcome to Arrest Stories. A fifty-seven-year-old Portland man faces telephonic harassment and stalking charges after allegedly targeting a Sandy Hook parent who works at Oregon Health and Science University. Here's what may have happened.
Kevin Purfield was arrested at OHSU and is being held without bail following what authorities describe as an escalation of stalking behavior that began in two thousand thirteen. The victim, whose child was killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting, has been the target of Purfield's harassment for over a decade.
According to court documents, Purfield recently focused his attention on the victim's workplace at OHSU. On October twenty-fourth, Purfield called an OHSU employee asking if the Sandy Hook parent worked there and made threats, telling the employee the victim was going to get what was coming to him. Prosecutors describe Purfield as a conspiracy theorist who seeks out and terrorizes families who have lost children in mass shootings, among others.
OHSU permanently excluded Purfield from campus on November tenth, serving him with a no contact order. Despite these restrictions, authorities say Purfield's behavior continued to escalate. He was served with a temporary restraining order on November twenty-fifth, banning contact with the victim's home or workplace.
Court records show Purfield violated the restraining order almost immediately. Defendant called an OHSU extension at ten forty-five AM, minutes after being served with the TRO, admitted to having been served, and then said the victim's daughter was never killed, and that the victim is a piece of crap, according to prosecutors.
Purfield repeatedly called OHSU looking for the victim and left voicemails on at least ten occasions. The stalking pattern extends beyond phone calls, as Purfield has shown up at homes of victims as recently as September, when he arrived unannounced at the home of a member of the mayor's staff.
Authorities note that Purfield has been found to have weapons in his home even after being prohibited from possessing weapons by prior court orders. In August two thousand twenty, Purfield pled no contest to felony stalking charges, and his probation ended in February two thousand twenty-four.
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