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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nOn May 27, a witness called 911 after spotting Brown (seen above) floating face-down in the Okanogan River near Oroville, Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On May 27, a witness called 911 after spotting a man, later identified as Brown, wading in the Okanogan River near Oroville, Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The witness briefly turned away, then turned back after hearing a loud noise. That\u2019s when they allegedly saw Brown floating face-down in a swift current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A day later, the reality star\u2019s younger brother Bear Brown\u00a0said he had \u201csome really bad news\u201d\u00a0and had been told that Matt \u201ctook his own life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bear, 38, said Matt \u201cwas seen in a river, at a river or close to a river\u201d and later \u201cfloating down the river\u201d and that someone then \u201ccalled police,\u201d who have been \u201ctrying to find the body.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matt\u2019s brother Bear Brown (seen above) said he feared his sibling had taken his own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bear (seen above) claimed Matt had \u201cbeen struggling for a long time with alcohol and with drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAll the witnesses are saying that it was Matt,\u201d Bear lamented. \u201cSomeone definitely did, and a lot of people are thinking that it\u2019s him. \u2026 It looks like it is. \u2026 It\u2019s looking very likely that it is the case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bear claimed his older brother had \u201cbeen struggling for a long time with alcohol and with drugs\u201d and claimed that Matt allegedly\u00a0\u201cdidn\u2019t want anything to do with the family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bear later confirmed that authorities identified the body that was found in the Okanogan River as his brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matt\u2019s body was recovered from a Washington State river on May 30. He was 43. (Pictured: Matt in a selfie.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matt\u2019s youngest brother, Noah Brown, helped pull the reality star\u2019s body out of the water. (Pictured: Matt in a selfie.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey found a body in the river a few hours ago and it was positively identified as being Matt,\u201d he\u00a0said in a\u00a0TikTok update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bear said his and Matt\u2019s youngest brother, Noah Brown, was the first family member to see Matt\u2019s body and that he assisted in the recovery efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNoah helped them pull the body out of the water and\u00a0Noah identified [Matt],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bear said he believed Matt\u00a0died by suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bear said he believed Matt (seen above driving) died by suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matt (seen above in a selfie) was a cast member of Discovery\u2019s reality show \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d from 2014 until 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI would\u2019ve never thought that Matt would hurt himself. It does look as though it was self-inflicted,\u201d Bear said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Matt was a cast member of Discovery\u2019s reality show \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d from its debut in 2014 until 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The series followed the Brown family\u2019s life in the Alaskan wilderness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, contact the\u00a0Suicide and Crisis Lifeline\u00a0by calling or texting 988.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d star Matt Brown\u2019s cause of death has been revealed after the reality star died last month. According to an autopsy conducted by the Okanogan County Coroner in Washington and obtained by Page Six, Brown\u2019s manner of death was ruled a suicide caused by a single penetrating gunshot wound to the head. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whmx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409745,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409736\/revisions\/409745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-44-576x1024.png\")
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