Authorities in Florida have launched an investigation after a severed human head was found by terrified beachgoers on a beach in Key Biscayne, just south of Miami Beach, on Tuesday morning.
Miami-Dade police arrived at the beach around 8:40 a.m. after receiving multiple reports of a human head in the sand.
Police said the head was initially discovered by workers raking the beach. It is unclear whether the head belonged to a man or a woman, and police are working with the coroner's office to identify the head.
A Miami-Dade Police Department spokesperson said it is too early to determine whether the decapitations are related to recent incidents in the area, including Saturday's incident involving a missing teenage boy off the coast of Miami Beach. He said it was too early.
This tragic discovery shocked residents of the barrier island.
“We've seen everything here, but nothing like what we found this morning, a human head. It makes me scared to go to my favorite beach,” he said. said Bahman Amini, who has lived in the apartment for 40 years. CBS News Miami.
“This is shocking, shocking. You don't hear much about it. You've heard about drugs washing up on the shore and things like that, but the heads!” Marcelo Borrelli of Miami he told the magazine.
Tourists visiting the Sunshine State also felt shaken and worried.
“It's pretty scary and crazy. I've never heard of anything like this happening on this kind of beach before,” Alex Portuondo, a Denver tourist who lived in South Florida, told CBS. He told News Miami.
“I think I'm curious if they have any information about where it came from, if anything else was found, if it happened on this island, if it washed up on the shore. I think it probably happened somewhere else and ended up here, and that's why I'm worried.”
