Miami-Dade police are investigating after a human head washed up on a popular South Florida beach behind the Key Colony II Ocean Sound condos on Tuesday morning.

Miami-Dade Police told NBC South Florida a person who was raking the beach made the discovery around 8:36 a.m. local time in Key Biscayne, which is about 7 miles southeast of Miami. Police said it is unclear if the head is that of a man or woman ...

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.

A human head was found washed ashore on a beach Tuesday morning in South Florida, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Police in South Florida are working to determine the identity of a head that washed ashore near Key Biscayne on Tuesday morning.

A human head has been found washed up on a south Florida beach, sparking a mystery as to who it belongs to and what may have happened to them. A beach worker was raking the sand near Crandon Boulevard in Key Biscayne on Tuesday morning when they spotted something floating in the water along the shoreline and made the grim discovery,

Miami-Dade police are investigating after a head they believe belongs to an adult male washed ashore in Key Biscayne