Human head found washed up on popular tourist beach in the United States - Local residents have spoken about the gruesome discovery

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.

An investigation was launched Tuesday morning after a person raking the beach on Key Biscayne, a barrier island just east of Miami, reportedly came across a human head.

A human head washed ashore on a Key Biscayne beach on Tuesday morning, authorities say. At about 8:40 a.m. the Miami Dade Police Department arrived at 251 Crandon Blvd after receiving reports of a human head on the beach.