Miami-Dade police investigate after man's head found on Key Biscayne beach
MIAMI-DADE - Police are looking for clues after a man's head apparently washed up on Key Biscayne on Tuesday morning.
Detectives said a worker discovered a head at 8:36 a.m. on the beach behind the Key Colony II Ocean Sound condominium building at 251 Crandon Blvd.
A section of the beach was cordoned off with yellow police tape for an investigation
Miami-Dade Police later confirmed the head was a man.
On Tuesday, Miami-Dade Police detective Argemis Colome told CBS News Miami the head would be examined by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office, and Miami-Dade Police homicide investigators were looking into the discovery.
Key Colony II Ocean Sound resident Bahman Amini said he has lived in the condominium for 40 years.
"We have seen all things here but nothing like this what was found this morning, the head of a person. It makes us scared to go to the beach that we love," Amini said.
Alex Portuondo was visiting from Denver and used to live in South Florida.
"That's pretty scary and crazy," she said. "I have never heard of anything like this happening before on this kind of beach. I guess I am curious if they have any information on where it came from, if anything else has been found, if it happened here on the island or washed up on the shore. I guess I assume it might have happened someplace else and washed up here but I do worry because of this."
Kristy Sippel, a tourist from New York City, said: "It is scary. I would like to know what happened."
"I am curious about it, I guess," said Pat, a tourist from Summit, New Jersey.
Marcelo Borrelli, a local Miami resident, 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."
"I have questions about where it came from, where the remains came from. It is pretty upsetting," added Mollie McAuliffe, another local resident.