Los Angeles ( CNN ) -- Authorities in California on Friday identified the man whose severed head , hands and feet were discovered this week as 66-year-old Hervey Medellin . The victim was from Los Angeles , said Lt. David Smith with the Los Angeles County coroner 's office . Earlier in the day , Los Angeles police completed their biggest search in recent memory , with 120 investigators scouring seven acres in the Hollywood hills looking for more body parts . But the search , which began Tuesday , did n't find additional limbs or a torso , and detectives were continuing their investigation , police said . Upon concluding the hillside search , police Friday reopened Bronson Canyon Park beneath the Hollywood sign and urged hikers and other recreational visitors to be careful and not walk the trails alone . The body parts happened to be located near the home of actor Brad Pitt , and authorities interviewed his bodyguard for possible leads , police said Thursday . `` It 's standard procedure for us to have our detectives canvass the neighborhood , '' Los Angeles Police Cmdr . Andrew Smith said . The bodyguard saw nothing unusual , he added . Meanwhile , the dog walker whose golden retriever , Ollie , discovered the head in a park Tuesday below the Hollywood sign said she at first thought the head was a movie prop . `` Our assumption was that there was always people filming up there , and it was a prop , '' Lauren Kornberg , who was walking with her mother at the time , told HLN . `` We walked down the ravine and got closer and realized it was a freshly severed human head . '' Authorities believe the dismemberment occurred in a place other than the park , Smith said . Officers , coroner 's investigators , helicopters , all-terrain vehicles , a SWAT team trained in climbing skills and mounted officers searched the section of Bronson Canyon , next to Griffith Park , Smith said . The coroner 's cadaver dog located the two hands and two feet scattered across the brushy and steep terrain , police said . Authorities believe the human remains were placed in one spot and then were spread by wild animals , Smith said . The body parts were hidden until the animals found them . `` You could say it was a determined effort to hide them , '' Smith said of the body parts , declining to elaborate . A search on Wednesday located first one hand , about 50 yards from where the head was found . Another hand and then two feet were found just before waning daylight forced an end to that day 's search , police said . The real-life Hollywood mystery began Tuesday afternoon as Kornberg and her mother were walking dogs in the park below the Hollywood sign . In the interview with HLN , Kornberg said she was walking eight dogs when one of them , the golden retriever named Ollie , ran away from her . Kornberg was joined by her mother , who was walking her own dog . `` We were wandering the trail and the dogs are sniffing around , and he ( Ollie ) pulled away from me and made a beeline for some brush . He was barking , '' Kornberg said . `` A few minutes later , he had something in his mouth , which he immediately dropped , '' Kornberg said . The object rolled down the ravine , Kornberg said . Kornberg and her mother discovered it was a human head belonging to what she described as a white man . `` We were pretty much gasping , saying , 'Oh , my God ! ' I was shaking . It felt like a script , '' Kornberg said . `` It still does n't feel real . '' The secluded trails , adjacent to Griffith Park , are a favorite place for residents , including many celebrities , to walk their dogs or hike . The coroner 's office is examining whether the man was dead when the dismemberment occurred , and what kind of instrument may have been used to remove the head and limbs , Smith said . Police do n't have a theory on what happened . `` Right now , we 're keeping an open mind ... on why this poor person was dismembered and deposited up there , '' Smith said . Detectives estimated the man had been dead since Sunday . CNN 's Mike Martinez , Irving Last , Alan Duke , Rosalina Nieves and HLN 's Selin Darkalstanian contributed to this report .
The victim is identified as 66-year-old Hervey Medellin . Police end search for more body parts . A man who was shot and killed by police early Sunday morning at a home on the 1300 block of West Main Street has been identified. Dog walker who found the head first thought it was a Hollywood prop .