Head of boy, 19, washes up on Miami beach after he desperately tried to rescue drowning sister

Victor Castaneda Jr. was reported missing aft his assemblage vanished portion trying to prevention his sister from the rip existent they were caught successful portion swimming disconnected the seashore of Miami connected November 9

A teen's dismembered caput washed ashore aft helium desperately tried to rescue his drowning sister.

The remains person been identified arsenic that of a 19-year-old swimmer who went missing successful Miami Beach aft helium tried to rescue his younger sister from a rip current, authorities said.

Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr. was reported missing adjacent a jetty connected November 9. His disappearance led to an unsuccessful hunt by section officials and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Meanwhile, a man's caput was recovered November 12 by a formation idiosyncratic successful Key Biscayne, the obstruction land conscionable disconnected Miami. On Friday, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner confirmed that the quality remains were those of Castaneda. A origin and mode of decease person not been released.

Castaneda and his sister were swimming astatine Miami Beach's South Point Beach erstwhile a rip existent caught them. A bystander went into the h2o and rescued the miss but erstwhile that idiosyncratic went backmost to assistance Castaneda, helium was obscurity to beryllium found, household members said.

On Saturday, household and friends gathered astatine the formation for a memorial work to observe the young man's life. Two Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue boats fired h2o cannons successful an honorary show, the Miami Herald reported. Wearing "Forever 19" shirts, Castaneda's sisters told quality outlets they were grateful for the outpouring of enactment for their family.

"He would person loved to spot however galore radical person travel and travel unneurotic and emotion him wholeheartedly," Castaneda's sister, Chloe, told WBFS-TV. "My member was an amazing, astonishing idiosyncratic and to cognize him was to emotion him," added his different sister, Jessica. "He couldn't person been much perfect. The astir benignant idiosyncratic I've ever known." Castaneda was 1 of 8 children.