Officers were called to reports of suspicious activity on Sydenham Road at around 3.45pm on Sunday, Met Police say.
"After it happened, the boy he came to shoot stood there filming him."She said she had lived in Sydenham for 25 years and there had been very few incidents.Two men who were in a nearby pub heard a shot but thought it was a car backfiring because there was no other commotion before or after.
Another man, who didn't want to be named, said :"We've heard three or four different stories - we've heard it was a guy on a moped, someone in a car and then that the did it to himself." Adam Cornish, 37, who lives close to the scene, said the area had been largely unaffected by rising levels of violence elsewhere in the capital.
Mr Cornish, who has a two-year-old daughter, said:"I've lived here for five and a half years - you get a few idiots driving up and down too fast but nothing like this." Ellie Reeves, Labour MP for Lewisham West and Penge, tweeted:"Shocked and saddened to learn of the fatal shooting in Sydenham this afternoon.Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 quoting CAD 4860/8Sept or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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