‘Alaskan Bush People’ alum Matt Brown, 43, feared dead after alarming livestream

“Alaskan Bush People” prima Bear Brown believes his older relative Matt Brown mightiness beryllium dead.

Bear took to TikTok Thursday to stock “some really bad news” pinch his followers, saying he had been told that Matt — nan eldest related of nan Brown bunch — “took his ain life.”

Although Bear, 38, “can’t corroborate that that’s true,” he said Matt, 43, “was seen successful a river, astatine a stream aliases adjacent to a river” and later “floating down nan river.”

According to Bear, personification past “called police,” who person been “trying to find nan body.”

“All nan witnesses are saying that it was Matt,” Bear lamented. “Someone decidedly did, and a batch of group are reasoning that it’s him. … It looks for illustration it is. … It’s looking very apt that it is nan case.”

“Alaskan Bush People” prima Bear Brown (seen above) believes his older relative Matt Brown mightiness beryllium dead. TikTok/bearthekingofextreme

Bear took to TikTok Thursday to stock a “some really bad news” pinch his followers, saying he had been told that Matt — nan eldest related of nan Brown bunch — “took his ain life.” TikTok/bearthekingofextreme

Bear noted that Matt “has been struggling for a agelong clip pinch intoxicant and pinch drugs,” but insisted nan family did not “shun” him. Instead, Matt allegedly “didn’t want thing to do pinch nan family.”

Bear claimed he talks to Matt infrequently and “encourage[s] him to enactment connected his way and support connected his sobriety stuff.”

In fact, he said they ran into each different astatine a Walmart “a small spot ago.”

“That was nan past clip I saw him,” Bear shared. “And he called maine aft that, and he said that he had fallen disconnected nan wagon. And I was like, ‘Well, get backmost connected it, man. Everybody falls off. Just get backmost connected it. Go to rehab if you’ve sewage to. You sewage this. You’ve fought it a batch before.'”

Bear added that Matt was besides apparently “going done a really bad breakup” pinch “a woman he really liked.”

“I conjecture he had been drinking excessively much. I don’t cognize each nan specifications to it,” Bear said, thrice repeating that he “would’ve ne'er thought that Matt would return his ain life.”

With tears successful his eyes, Bear asked fans to beryllium “respectful,” particularly toward nan brothers’ mom, Ami Brown. (Patriarch Billy Brown died successful February 2021.)

“Please don’t blasted her. Mom cares very overmuch for Matt and ever has and has been done a batch for him. A lot. So please don’t onslaught my mom,” Bear begged.

Shortly earlier Bear made his affectional announcement, nan Okanogan County Sheriff Office successful Washington — wherever Matt lived — announced successful a property release that personification had called 911 connected Wednesday to opportunity that they had conscionable spoken to a man sitting successful nan shallow h2o of nan Okanogan River, which is southbound of Oroville.

“The caller turned distant from nan man sitting successful nan river, heard a sound, turned backmost toward nan man successful nan h2o and saw nan man was look down successful nan h2o drifting distant successful nan current,” nan property merchandise read, revealing that a weapon was recovered from nan area wherever nan man was seen.

Officers from various agencies were dispatched to nan location but were incapable to find nan man successful nan river, truthful they launched a search.

Though nan hunt “remains ongoing,” nan “elevated runoff h2o levels make difficult and vulnerable hunt conditions of debased visibility, elevated existent velocity and debris successful nan water.”

The property merchandise noted that nan personality of nan man was unconfirmed and would not beryllium released.

A fewer hours aft nan memo was shared, a position appeared connected Matt’s Facebook, which notably has a characteristic that allows users to schedule posts.

“Hi friends ,” nan connection began. “Sometimes, nan hardest task you must do mundane is to support going. You cognize you tin conscionable laic location connected your furniture nan full day, but thing wrong you whispers dream to get up and impulse you to hole yourself. I conjecture you are a beardown personification to grip immoderate dense situations for illustration this. And I conjecture you must beryllium proud of it.”

The connection continued, “I cognize each this time, you’ve been trying difficult to past a time pinch heavy sadness and you’ve been trying to find an flight from it. It is not easy darling, it will ne'er beryllium easy to prime yourself up again aft a awesome downfall.

“One point that you should support successful mind is that whether you’re okay aliases not, clip won’t conscionable extremity for you, you whitethorn beryllium tired of trying to hole yourself complete and complete again, but spot your ain spot darling. Tell yourself that you will ne'er springiness up till nan time you recovered your happiness.”

Last week, a nude Matt — who was seemingly drunk and/or precocious — rambled while carrying what appeared to beryllium a weapon successful an alarming livestream uploaded to YouTube.

If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, interaction nan Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling aliases texting 988.