Inset: Kevin Purfield (Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office). Background: A sign at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, where the 2012 shooting massacre unfolded (Shutterstock).
An Oregon resident is now facing legal repercussions for allegedly “relentlessly stalking” a grieving father whose child was a casualty in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. Prosecutors claim the accused harassed the father’s colleagues, asserting that his “daughter was never killed” and threatening that the father would “get what was coming to him.”
Kevin Purfield, aged 58, appeared in court last week, where he was charged with 10 counts of telephonic harassment and felony stalking related to these accusations.
Documents filed by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office and reviewed by Law&Crime on Tuesday detail Purfield’s alleged behavior and past offenses. The Portland resident reportedly has a record of being “repeatedly convicted” for stalking and other offenses connected to victims of mass shootings.
The affidavit describes Purfield as a “conspiracy theorist” who targets and harasses families mourning children lost in mass shootings. It notes that he has even appeared uninvited at the homes of his victims, including a recent incident in September involving a staff member of the mayor.
Prosecutors allege that Purfield’s “threatening conduct” recently extended to Oregon Health & Science University, the workplace of the Sandy Hook victim’s father whom Purfield is accused of stalking.
The affidavit claims that Purfield began targeting the father in 2013 and has continued sporadically, with a notable increase in activity. It alleges Purfield has contacted the father via messages and calls, and sent mail to a previous address. On October 24, 2025, he allegedly phoned an OHSU employee twice, inquiring about the father’s employment there, claiming the father had reported him to the FBI, and suggesting the father would “get what was coming to him.”
On Nov. 10, Purfield was served with a permanent exclusion from OHSU and a no-contact order stating that “any communication to our facilities, and/or our staff may be considered Telephonic Harassment and may also subject you to arrest and criminal penalties.”
Purfield was served with a temporary restraining order on Nov. 25 that prohibited him from attempting to contact or having any contact, direct or indirect, with the Sandy Hook father.
“Defendant has ignored these orders and persisted in contacting [the dad] and other OHSU employees, and has dialed OHSU employees and extensions and left voicemails on at least 10 occasions,” the affidavit says.
Just minutes after being served with the TRO, Purfield allegedly called an OHSU extension and “admitted” to having been served. He claimed that the father’s “daughter was never killed, and that [the dad] is a ‘piece of crap,’” according to the affidavit.
Purfield allegedly called OHSU again hours later and said that the father is a “piece of s—” and wanted to know who gave the father “information that formed the basis of the protection order.” A few hours after that, Purfield called OHSU dispatch and said that he knew where the dad “works and lives,” according to prosecutors.
About 45 minutes passed before Purfield allegedly picked up the phone again and dialed OHSU for a third time that day, referring to the police chief by name and wondering “aloud” whether the chief had ever been invited to the home of an OHSU official.
“The view from his deck is beautiful,” Purfield said in an email sent just five minutes after the call, according to the affidavit. Purfield allegedly followed up the call and email with a text to the father 30 minutes later, which included an address in Washington, D.C., and “the name Barack Obama,” per the affidavit.
Purfield was arrested at his apartment that evening and charged with stalking and telephonic harassment. He is in custody without bail and has a court date scheduled for Dec. 5, according to online records.
