A 17-year-old boy has died after being found with a gunshot wound in a street in south London.

Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton, an aspiring architect, was discovered with critical injuries on Warham Street in Southwark on Saturday evening.

Scotland Yard said officers were called to reports of gunshots on nearby Cooks Road at about 6.05pm.

Paramedics from the London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance rushed to the scene, but the teenager, who was named by his mother, Pretana Morgan, on Sunday, was pronounced dead just before 7pm.

The death is the latest in a spate of violent crimes in the capital, as police investigate more than 60 alleged murders so far this year.