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

Officials in the state of Florida have launched an investigation after a severed human head was discovered at a Miami beach last week. The severed head had washed ashore on a Key Biscayne beach, which is just south of Miami,

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.