PARIS — A Lovell man shot by police earlier this spring has had his case pushed back a month because of scheduling conflicts. 

An attorney for Dennis Buffington Jr., 31, has rescheduled a July 9 arraignment to August because he will be working in a different court, according to a motion to continue dated in June. Prosecutors did not object.

Buffington was charged with multiple felony and misdemeanor counts after a May 20 incident in which he was shot by an Oxford County Sheriff’s corporal near his home on Nuthatch Road.

Police have released few details of the armed confrontation because it is under investigation by the Attorney General’s Office, which is standard procedure when police use deadly force. 

After receiving a 911 call around 1 a.m. stating Buffington was creating a disturbance on the dead-end dirt road, multiple law enforcement agencies converged on the scene and two hours later police shot Buffington. He spent a week in the hospital recovering from multiple wounds. A panel later affirmed the shooting to be justified.

According to a police complaint, Buffington threatened to shoot a person, assaulted them and destroyed the windows in their house as well as a truck, with damages exceeding $2,000. It also states he created the risk of harming three other individuals, drove a truck erratically and shot a weapon within 100 yards of a home. 

Buffington, who does not have a violent criminal record, has been released under house arrest in Waterford. In June his bail was amended to permit him to have contact with a girlfriend. 

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