Heartbreaking video shows grieving mum cleaning her son's blood off the street after drive-by shooting

Heartbreaking footage has emerged of a grieving mother scrubbing her own son’s blood off the street.

Rhyhiem Ainsworth Barton was fatally gunned down in a drive-by shooting Southwark on Saturday.

The 17-year-old rapper and aspiring architect had “so much potential”, his mother said as she tearfully told of her “handsome boy”.

Rhyhiem’s mother, Pretana Morgan, called for a stop to the violence.

She begged: “Let my son be the last and be an example to everyone. Just let it stop. What must be, must be.”

In an emotional clip, Pretana is pictured wiping the pavement from the scene of the drive-by, where her son’s blood had lay for two days after he was shot.

She added: “It’s not about race, it’s not about nation, it’s not about culture. Nothing.

“It’s just a human race. So children, please let my son be the last.”

Preteen said her son was not involved with gangs and had tried to help local communities to “make a difference”.

Rhyhiem’s 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.

Official statistics released in April showed the number of homicides in London had surged by 44% in the last year.