{"id":54717,"date":"2026-06-01T14:11:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/?p=54717"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:11:45","slug":"the-heartbreaking-way-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-brown-was-found-dead-by-own-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2026\/06\/01\/the-heartbreaking-way-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-brown-was-found-dead-by-own-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"The heartbreaking way Alaskan Bush People star Matt Brown was found dead by own brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alaskan Bush People star Matt Brown was sadly found dead<\/a> after being pulled from a river on Saturday, with his brother Noah being there when they found him.<\/p>\n

A search for Matt was started at the end of last week, with his brother Bear confirming that he\u2019d been found on Saturday after a body was located in the water.<\/p>\n

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An official press release from the Okanogan County Sheriff Office\u2019s stated: \u201cOn Saturday, May 30, 2026, a group of private citizens conducting a search along the Okanogan River located a deceased individual in the river. The individual was recovered and brought to shore, where he was positively identified as Matthew Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah opened up about the search effort he was involved in for his brother and Alaskan Bush People star Matt, as he was part of the group who sadly discovered his body.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Us Weekly, Noah explained: “For the past couple days, I\u2019ve been communicating back and forth with the different search teams. There were two separate search teams that were going to look for him. They were nonprofits and we\u2019re all communicating.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He continued: \u201cOne of the smaller, more local teams decided to go out yesterday, and about \u2014 I think it\u2019s 3:20-something, 3:27, 3:28, something like that \u2014 they texted me and told me they had found him. So I rushed down to the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

They decided that rather than\u00a0\u201cleaving the body where it was,\u201d the small search team decided to load Matt \u201cinto a small skiff\u201d and move his body \u201cto shore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noah continued: “Then myself and the rest of the people that were looking hauled the skiff up further on the shore, and that\u2019s where it was \u2026 when the coroner came. Right now, all I can say is that he was lost in the river. He was lost in the river and we found him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He explained that he’s still processing the moment he knew the body was his brothers, sharing: “I\u2019m kind of compartmentalizing, kind of focusing on, like, what the next thing is I\u2019m supposed to do. I knew I needed to be there in order to be able to identify him. It\u2019s not just for the sheriffs and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cMy family has this thing that if we don\u2019t see the body and one of us is able to confirm otherwise, there is, like, a little glimmer of hope that maybe they\u2019re still out there. His ID was on him, his social security was on him. And I, personally, I personally ID\u2019d him. They unzipped the body bag for me, and I was able to visually ID [my brother].\u201d<\/p>\n

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