Authorities are working to identify a human head that floated ashore and was found by a beach staffer Tuesday morning near Key Biscayne, media reports say. “It’s a very sad situation,” resident James Harrington told WSVN.

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.