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Matt Browns Brother Shares Gripping Recovery Details

The brother of late Alaskan Bush People star Matt Brown has revealed harrowing details of how rescuers recovered his remains.Brown, 43, had been seen by multipl...

Matt Browns Brother Shares Gripping Recovery Details
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The brother of late Alaskan Bush People star Matt Brown has revealed harrowing details of how rescuers recovered his remains.

Brown, 43, had been seen by multiple witnesses in a river in Okanogan County in northern  last week - with his body pulled from the water by his youngest brother Noah on May 30.

His younger brother Bear suggested that Brown died by suicide and spoke of a wound on his body that looked to be 'self-inflicted' but did not reveal the location or severity of the wound.

Noah, 33, told US Weekly of the heartbreaking conclusion to the search: 'For the past couple days, I’ve been communicating back and forth with the different search teams.

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'There [were] two separate search teams that were going to look for him. They were nonprofits and we’re all communicating.

'One of the smaller, more local teams decided to go out yesterday, and about - I think it’s 3:20-something, 3:27, 3:28, something like that - they texted me and told me they had found him. So I rushed down to the spot.

The brother of late Alaskan Bush People star Matt Brown has revealed harrowing details of how rescuers recovered his remains 

Brown, 43, had been seen by multiple witnesses in a river in Okanogan County in northern Washington state last week - with his body pulled from the water by his youngest brother Noah (pictured) on May 30

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He added that rather than 'leaving the body where it was' the small search team decided to load Brown 'into a small skiff' and move his body 'to shore.'

'Then myself and the rest of the people that were looking hauled the skiff up further on the shore, and that’s where it was… 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.'

Brown's body is with the coroner with an autopsy planned. 

they saw Brown around 8am Wednesday near Driscoll Island Wildlife Area off Highway 97 in Oroville, Washington, less than a mile from where the witness saw the man in the river.

If you or someone you know needs help, please call or text the confidential 24/7 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US on 988. There is also an online chat available at 988lifeline.org. 

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