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UPDATED pinch charismatic origin of death: The Okanogan County Coroner’s Office has confirmed that Matt Brown, who appeared successful Discovery’s Alaskan Bush People reality series, died by suicide.
An autopsy completed coming reveals Brown died from a “single penetrating gunshot coiled to nan head”, according to nan coroner’s study obtained by Deadline. The study notes contributing circumstances were immersion successful h2o – a stream – and that he was nether nan power of methamphetamine.
The assemblage will beryllium released to nan family for last arrangements.
Brown’s assemblage was recovered May 31 successful a stream southbound of Oroville, WA. He was 43.
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PREVIOUS, May 31: Matt Brown, a personnel of nan family featured successful Discovery’s Alaskan Bush People, has died. He was 43.
On Saturday night, Matt’s relative Bear Brown announced that his assemblage was identified hours earlier successful a adjacent river, having died from an evident suicide.
“This is an update astir Matt,” he said successful a TikTok video. “They recovered a assemblage successful nan stream a fewer hours ago, and it was positively identified arsenic being Matt. Noah [Brown, their brother] was pinch him and helped propulsion him retired of nan water, and Noah identified him.
“I would person ne'er suspected he would person wounded himself, honestly. He struggled for a agelong time, arsenic I’ve mentioned. I was truthful worried he was gonna extremity up OD’ed aliases thing for illustration that, I didn’t deliberation that he would wounded himself. It does look arsenic though nan wounded is self-inflicted. Obviously, nan coroner still has to look astatine him and stuff, but I thought that y’all guys should cognize that it is him,” added Bear.
The Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office said successful a connection that they received a 911 telephone Wednesday from personification reporting that a man was sitting successful nan shallow waters of nan Okanogan River conscionable southbound of nan metropolis of Oroville, WA. The caller turned distant for a bit, heard a sound and past saw nan man “face down successful nan h2o drifting distant successful nan current.” The sheriff’s section said a firearm was recovered from nan h2o wherever nan man was past seen. A hunt for nan man had been suspended astatine 4pm Thursday owed to terrible weather.
Bear antecedently shared that Matt had been struggling pinch narcotics and intoxicant “for a very agelong time” and that he had been getting progressively worried astir him.
In Saturday’s video, Bear asked his followers to “please beryllium respectful to my family and to my mom. And please, watch nan comments that you leave, guys. Sometimes, words tin wounded much than fists can.”
If you aliases anyone you cognize is having thoughts of suicide, telephone aliases matter 988 to scope nan National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
“A batch of group person logged antagonistic comments connected Matt’s worldly too. One of his past videos, he was really talking astir really antagonistic group were connected his posts. And y’all should support successful mind that group connected nan different broadside of nan screen, group that you’re watching a video of, they’re existent group too.”
Appearing connected Alaskan Bush People for nan first 8 seasons from 2014 to 2019, Matt Brown was nan oldest kid of Billy and Ami Brown, who built a life disconnected nan grid successful nan pinch their family successful nan docuseries. Billy died of a seizure astatine property 68 successful 2021.
