A child looking for Easter eggs in a Los Angeles-area park over the weekend instead found a human skull.
The skull was found on Easter Sunday in DeForest Park in Long Beach, California, roughly 24 miles south of Los Angeles, the Long Beach Police Department said, according to the Long Beach Post.
Los Angeles County Medical Examiner personnel responded to the park on Monday and retrieved the skull and a mandible. The medical examiner’s office did not say what size the skull was or whether it was suspected to belong to an infant, child or adult.
Family members of the child who found the skull told KCBS-TV that the skull was that of a deceased child and that other bones belonging to the victim were also found.
Police said that no other remains were found with the skull and mandible, according to KABC-TV.
The medical examiner’s office is continuing to investigate the find and the identity of the skull’s owner, “Unidentified Doe #196.”
