5:08 p.m.

Cumberland County Sheriff's Deputy Stephen Welsh fired at Douglas Tenczar as the 41-year-old Sebago man was leveling a shotgun at his porch door, behind which stood another deputy in the line of fire, authorities said Thursday.As Welsh fired, Sgt. David Hall moved from behind the door and opened fire himself. Tenczar did not shoot.Both deputies have been placed on adminsitrative pleave pending the outcome of an investigation by the Maine Attorney General's Office, which investigates all uses of deadly force by the state's officers. Tenczar was in critical condition Thursday following the Wednesday night incident. Sheriff Mark Dion said at a news conference Thursday afternoon that the incident could easily have turned deadly for the officers had Welsh not made the decision to fire.Deputies had responded to Tenczar's house to investigate a road rage incident a few minutes earlier in which a man had brnadished a handgun during a confrontation with three females driving on Route 114.

1:49 p.m.

Officers from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department shot a Sebago man who authorities say confronted them when they tried to question him Wednesday night at his home.

Douglas Tenczar, 41, of 31 Ledge Drive was wounded and had to be flown by helicopter to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston for treatment of injuries described as serious by Sheriff Mark Dion.

A supervisor at the hospital said she would not be able to describe Tenczar’s condition.

Because so-called deadly force was used, members of the Maine Attorney General’s Office were called in to investigate.

Dion refused to identify the patrol sergeant and deputy who fired an undisclosed number of shots at Tenczar.

Helen Rogers, Tenczar’s next-door neighbor, said, “I didn’t know him all that well, but from what I saw, he seemed to be pleasant enough.”

Rogers said the neighborhood is generally quiet, except when Tenczar takes target practice in his backyard with a firearm.

Rogers and Tenczar live on Ledge Road, near the parking lot to the Douglas Mountain Preserve and hiking trail in Sebago.

Dion said two people filed a complaint with the sheriff’s department Wednesday evening alleging that a man had shown a handgun and threatened them during what Dion described as a “road rage” incident.

The complaint led officers to Ledge Road, where they tried to question Tenczar.

Though Dion declined to go into detail, he said Tenczar approached the officers armed with a rifle or shotgun, and the officers then opened fire.

Fern and Diana Letellier, who live about a mile from Ledge Road, said they were listening to their police scanner as cruisers sped by their home Wednesday night.

“I heard the first responders, who said (Tenczar) was shot in the shoulder and the thigh,” Fern Letellier said.Dion said that Tenczar did not fire any shots at the officers. Dion said his team planned to search Tenczar’s home after getting a search warrant.

He was not certain whether Tenczar has a criminal record.

Dion described Tenczar’s Cape Cod-style house as being well kept, with a stone wall and a barn/workshop.

Staff Writer Dennis Hoey can be contacted at 791-6365 or at dhoey@pressherald.com