The human head that washed ashore in South Florida this week belonged to a missing 19-year-old swimmer, police said Friday.

This is shocking, shocking. You don’t hear a lot about that. You heard about drugs washing up on shore and things like that, but a head!” Miami resident Marcelo Borrelli said.

A human head was found on Tuesday morning after it washed ashore in Key Biscayne, Florida, according to multiple reports. Miami-Dade Police told NBC South Florida a person who was raking the beach made the discovery around 8:36 a.

Miami-Dade police are investigating after a human head washed up on a popular South Florida beach behind the Key Colony II Ocean Sound condos on Tuesday morning.

MIAMI-DADE, Fla. — Florida law enforcement is looking for answers after a human head was found washed up along the state's coast, reports say. A report from NBC 6 says the head was found just after 8:30 Tuesday morning on Key Biscayne when someone raking the beach discovered it near an apartment at Key Colony.

A human head was found washed ashore on a beach Tuesday morning in South Florida, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department.

A medical examiner is working to identify the person, and detectives will continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding this bizarre discovery.