A human head that washed ashore earlier this month on a beach in Key Biscayne, Florida, has been identified as belonging to a 19-year-old man who officials and family said vanished in the ocean earlier this month.

Authorities said that the human head recently discovered on a Miami beach belonged to missing 19-year-old Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr.

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

The head that washed ashore on Key Biscayne belonged to a 19-year-old swimmer who disappeared after saving his sister’s life in Miami Beach last weekend, authorities said.

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.

Miami Beach police identified the remains found on Key Biscayne as the 19-year-old who died saving his sister when they both were caught in a rip current last Saturday.

Police in South Florida have identified a human head found on a beach near Miami. Vladimir Shklyarov, a world-renowned Russian ballet star, has died after falling from the fifth floor of a building on Saturday.

Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr., 19, was reported missing in Miami Beach after he tried to rescue his younger sister from a rip current