Woman found dead in Sleepy Hollow pool

Sleepy Hollow police are trying to determine what caused 19-year-old Anna Schneider to drown in her family's swimming pool on the Fourth of July.

Details surrounding what transpired before her drowning remain sketchy, police said.

"We're in no man's land," Sleepy Hollow Police Chief Jim Montalbano said. "You treat every death like a homicide until you know anything better."

Paramedics were called at 4:55 a.m. to the home Schneider shared with her parents in the 0-100 block of Katrina Avenue after a female friend pulled her out of the pool, officials said.

Montalbano does not know how Schneider, a Dundee-Crown High School graduate, got into the water.

Investigators have not yet interviewed the friend because she was extremely distraught, but expected to speak with her by Tuesday.

Montalbano said paramedics administered CPR to the teen on the way to an area hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Schneider had just completed her freshman year at the University of Hawaii, where she was studying marine biology, family members said Monday.

The Kane County Coroner's Office on Monday evening was not releasing the results of the young woman's autopsy, completed earlier in the day.

A toxicology test will follow, Montalbano said, to determine whether drugs or alcohol may have played a role in Schneider's death.

Those results won't be known for at least two weeks.