A Portland man previously convicted of stalking families who have lost children in mass shootings as well as other public figures has been arraigned on charges of harassing and stalking an employee at Oregon Health & Science University whose child was murdered in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
A probable cause affidavit filed last week by prosecutors in Multnomah County Circuit Court described Kevin Purfield as “a conspiracy theorist who seeks out and terrorizes families who have lost children in mass shootings, among others.” It said Purfield had shown up at the homes of his victims as recently as September, when he arrived unannounced at the home of a staff member of Portland Mayor Keith Wilson.
Robbie Parker, a physician’s assistant at OHSU, lost his 6-year-old daughter Emilie in the Sandy Hook shooting, one of 20 children and six adults killed by a gunman at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. Parker said in an interview Sunday that he has been consistently harassed since then by conspiracy theorists who claim the 2012 shooting was a hoax designed to increase support for gun control…