Matt Brown, star of Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People reality series, has died. He was 42.
His brother, Bear Brown, on Instagram Saturday announced “they found a body in the river a few hours ago, and it was positively identified as being Matt.” He added his younger brother Noah Brown was on hand when Matt Brown’s body was discovered in the Okanogan River in Washington state and helped the authorities identify his brother after a body was pulled from the water.
The office of the Okanogan County Sheriff in a May 30 press release said a “group of private citizens” had done a search along the river before coming upon a body in the water. “The individual was recovered and brought to shore, where he was positively identified as Matthew Brown,” the authorities said amid an ongoing investigation into the death.
“The cause and manner of death will be determined by the Coroner’s Office,” Jodie Barcus, county sheriff, added. Bear Brown said his brother had “struggled for a long time,” but he never assumed any harm would come to him.
“I would have never suspected he would have hurt himself, honestly,” Bear Brown said in his emotional Instagram video. “I was so worried he was gonna end up OD’ed or something like that, I didn’t think that he would hurt himself. It does look as though the injury is self-inflicted.”
