Drowning caused missing Northbrook man’s death

A 37-year-old Northbrook man reported missing in early December drowned in the Schaumburg subdivision pond where he was found Sunday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A passer-by spotted the body of Sebastian Tyburowski in the pond near 2550 Barkwood Road in the Tree House Apartments early Sunday afternoon.

Due to an undisclosed medical condition he had, Tyburowski lived at a nursing home on the 200 block of Skokie Boulevard in Northbrook, Schaumburg police Sgt. John Nebl said. Tyburowski’s mother had picked him up to spend the first weekend of December at her apartment on the 2600 block of Briar Trail in the Tree House Apartments, he added.

Tyburowski’s mother last saw her son when they went to bed at 10 p.m. Dec. 3. When she awoke at 8 a.m. Dec. 4, her son was no longer in the apartment, Nebl said.

Though it wasn’t uncommon for Tyburowski to have left the apartment without telling her, his mother reported him missing at about 2:15 p.m. that afternoon.

A search of the area and other places Tyburowski frequented was conducted without result, Nebl said. A request was made to use search dogs from DuPage County, but Schaumburg police were advised that the inclement weather that day would have rendered their use ineffective.

Though the medical examiner’s office concluded drowning to be the method of Tyburowski’s death, the manner — whether homicide, suicide or accidental — remained undetermined by Monday’s autopsy.

But Nebl said there has not yet been any indication of foul play in the discovery of Tyburowski’s body.

“There’s nothing suspicious or criminal that we’ve been able to find,” Nebl said. “It just looks like a terrible tragedy.”

Nevertheless, Schaumburg police are awaiting exploration of a few more avenues before completely closing the investigation, Nebl said.

Schaumburg paramedics responded to the scene north of Algonquin Road and west of Meacham Road at 12:35 p.m. Sunday.

Schaumburg Battalion Chief Michael Diaferia said it took 4 minutes to arrive at the scene and about 10 minutes to remove the body from the water.