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.

Victor Castaneda Jr. disappeared while swimming with his sister. "My heart is completely and irreparably shattered," she wrote on Facebook.

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