Matt Browns Cause of Death Revealed After Drowning

Alaskan Bush People star Matt Brown's cause of death has been confirmed - days after his body was found in a river.

Brown, 42, 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.

On Wednesday, June 3, the Okanogan County coroner's office confirmed to People that Brown died by suicide.

'Subsequent immersion in water' and 'under the influence of methamphetamine' are both cited as contributing circumstances to his death.

Brown's younger brother Bear had 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.

'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.

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.'