A TEENAGER has died after being shot in the head.
Police were called to St Ann’s in Barking to reports of a shooting just after 7pm on Sunday (March 19) and found a man with a gunshot wound to the head.
The victim, thought to be 18, later died in hospital.
The man's next-of-kin have been informed but a formal identification is yet to take place.
A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
A post-mortem examination will take place later.
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