Bear Brown confirmed her brother’s death in an emotional video she posted on social media after the “Alaskan Bush People” star went missing.
‘Alaskan Bush People’ star Matt Brown has been found dead, his brother has revealed.
Bear Brown confirmed in a video posted to his verified social media channels in the early hours of May 31 that his missing brother’s body had been recovered.
“They found a body in the river a few hours ago and positively identified it as Matt,” Baer told supporters in an emotional update. Their brother Noah “assisted in pulling the body out of the water, and Noah confirmed the identity of the body.”
Matt rose to fame while appearing on Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People, which aired for 14 seasons from 2014 to 2022. The series followed the life of the Brown family in a remote part of Alaska.
“Honestly, I had no idea he was going to get hurt. Like I said, he was in pain for a long time, and I was really worried that he was going to end up OD or something like that,” Baer said. “It appears that the injury was self-inflicted.”
He sternly asked his followers: “Please respect my family and my mother, and be mindful of the comments you leave.”
“In one of[Matt’s]last videos, he actually talks about how negative people were on his posts,” Baer said. “Please keep in mind that the people on the other side of the screen, the people you’re watching the video with, are real people, too. … Leave as many negative comments as you like about me, but please don’t mention my family.”
The Brown family feared for days that Matt Brown was dead.
In a video shared on May 28, Bear explained that she was told that “Matt took his own life” after he was found near a river in Okanogan County, Washington.
“Witnesses say he was seen at or near the river,” Baer said, adding that police were unable to find a body. At the time, he said, “I can’t be 100% sure, but it looks like Matt.”
During their last conversation, Bear said, Matt told her he “fell off the wagon.”
“I was like, ‘Come on, pick yourself up, dude. We all get depressed, so just pick yourself up. Go to rehab if you need to. You’ve got this,'” Baer said, adding that public speculation that Matt’s family was “shunning him” was false.
Witnesses told deputies the man fell into the river.
The search continued for days. “A caller reported to Okanogan 911 that he had just spoken with a man sitting in the shallows of the Okanogan River south of Oroville, Washington,” a May 28 press release from the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office said. “The caller turned away from the man who was sitting in the river, heard a noise, turned back to the man in the water, and saw the man face down in the river, floating on the surface.”
Authorities also revealed that “a firearm was recovered from the water in the area where the man was last seen.”
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