Update: Officer-Involved Shooting in San Mateo

Update 5:30 p.m.

A man shot and killed by police on Oak Street in San Mateo earlier today has been identified by his friend as San Mateo resident Robert Caron -- and the friend, who says they spoke only an hour or two before the shooting, is distraught and wondering what happened.

“He was in a good mood," said Renado McGlown, a longtime friend of Caron's who said they talked on the phone between 8:30 and 9 a.m. today. "He wasn’t suicidal at all when I talked to him, he was in a good mood and we were talking about him coming down to my place.”

Not long after that call, between 10:30 and 11 a.m. on the 1500 block of Oak Street, Caron was shot and killed by officers. According to a police statement, “A single suspect shot at officers. The officers returned fire and the suspect was shot. No officers were injured.”

No further information was immediately available, although police have scheduled a press conference for 5:30 p.m. today.

McGlown said Caron, who was in his mid-30s, was on medication and that he possessed a number of "realistic-looking" BB or pellet guns. Unconfirmed accounts from the scene of the incident seemed to indicate that Caron was wielding one of those guns and that he pointed it at officers before they fired.

Still, McGlown said he can't understand how such thing could have happened. “I know the guy when he’s down and out, and his mindframe wasn’t there” Monday morning, he said, indicating that his friend was in a good mood.

McGlown, a 32-year-old San Mateo native who now lives in the Sacramento area, also said his friend "had no problem with police. He used to be a security guard.”

Soon after the incident, police released a statement that “The scene is static – there is no danger in the immediate area. No schools have been locked down.”  is located just a few blocks away.

More on the incident will be known after this evening's press conference.