“Alaskan Bush People” prima Matt Brown’s origin of decease has been revealed aft nan reality prima died past month.
According to an autopsy conducted by nan Okanogan County Coroner successful Washington and obtained by Page Six, Brown’s mode of decease was ruled a termination caused by a azygous penetrating gunshot coiled to nan head.
The autopsy noted nan contributing circumstances were consequent immersion successful water — successful this lawsuit a stream — and that he was nether nan power of methamphetamine.
Brown’s assemblage will now beryllium released to his family for last arrangements.
On May 27, a witnesser called 911 aft spotting a man, later identified arsenic Brown, wading successful nan Okanogan River adjacent Oroville, Washington.
The witnesser concisely turned away, past turned backmost aft proceeding a large noise. That’s erstwhile they allegedly saw Brown floating face-down successful a swift current.
A time later, nan reality star’s younger relative Bear Brown said he had “some really bad news” and had been told that Matt “took his ain life.”
Bear, 38, said Matt “was seen successful a river, astatine a stream aliases adjacent to a river” and later “floating down nan river” and that personification past “called police,” who person been “trying to find nan body.”
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“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.”
Bear claimed his older relative had “been struggling for a agelong clip pinch intoxicant and pinch drugs” and claimed that Matt allegedly “didn’t want thing to do pinch nan family.”
Bear later confirmed that authorities identified nan assemblage that was recovered successful nan Okanogan River arsenic his brother.
“They recovered a assemblage successful nan stream a fewer hours agone and it was positively identified arsenic being Matt,” he said successful a TikTok update.
Bear said his and Matt’s youngest brother, Noah Brown, was nan first family personnel to spot Matt’s assemblage and that he assisted successful nan betterment efforts.
“Noah helped them propulsion nan assemblage retired of nan h2o and Noah identified [Matt],” he said.
Bear said he believed Matt died by suicide.
“I would’ve ne'er thought that Matt would wounded himself. It does look arsenic though it was self-inflicted,” Bear said astatine nan time.
Matt was a formed personnel of Discovery’s reality show “Alaskan Bush People” from its debut successful 2014 until 2019.
The bid followed nan Brown family’s life successful nan Alaskan wilderness.
If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, interaction the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling aliases texting 988.