A human head that washed ashore on a Key Biscayne beach earlier this month has been identified as belonging to 19-year-old Victor E. Castaneda Jr. of Miami. Castaneda went missing on November 9th while swimming with his 17-year-old sister,

Miami Beach police confirmed that the head that washed up on Key Biscayne on Tuesday morning belonged to a missing swimmer.

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.