The heartbreaking moment ‘Alaskan Bush People’ star Matt Brown’s body was found in river by rescue team

The harrowing specifications astir nan infinitesimal a rescue squad recovered Matt Brown’s assemblage successful nan stream person emerged.

Chay Wilkerson Moore spoke to nan US Sun astir nan affectional rescue mission, saying that he quickly formed a mini squad — which included Matt’s girlfriend, Jaime, and his relative Noah Brown — to hunt nan Okanogan River successful Washington State.

“Basically, we had 4 people, and they brought immoderate we could find, which were kayaks from Walmart,” Moore told nan outlet.

“I mean, we virtually had 2 kayaks and a small constrictive sportfishing boat. In fact, I felt that I was excessively large to get successful nan sportfishing vessel to assistance because, you know, I’m a beautiful large guy,” he added.

“We each cognize that stream highly well. I’ve been swimming successful it since nan 1970s. We cognize nan terrain, and we cognize our equipment, truthful we were rather assured that we’d find him.”

Moore said they had a scheme to man some sides of nan bank. Then, a female unpaid spotted a brownish overgarment bobbing up successful nan murky water.

“Brown h2o and brownish jacket… truthful very difficult to spot,” Moore said, adding that they recovered Matt’s assemblage “about 3.5 miles precisely from nan introduction constituent wherever he entered nan water.”

Moore said location were “a batch of emotions” felt erstwhile a unpaid named Charlie located Matt and began praying for him.

“And from that point, they approached nan body, and they loaded it into nan boat, which isn’t a normal believe for us,” Moore admitted.

“We usually telephone nan Sheriff, person them woody pinch it. But, being that nan existent was there, they were acrophobic that they would suffer him. If he went down that river, we would not find him,” he added.

“And being that they were very adjacent to Matt, I deliberation that their adrenaline kicked successful and they loaded him into nan boat.”

The rescue squad arranged an exit constituent wherever Noah and others met them to retrieve Matt’s body.

“We picked up nan vessel pinch Matt successful it; he was covered, and Noah was still successful a surreal authorities of disbelief,” Moore recalled to nan US Sun.

“Jamie, Matt’s girlfriend, was very overwhelmed pinch emotions, to opportunity nan least,” he shared, adding that she was “being comforted arsenic Charlie assisted nan assemblage down nan water, to support her looking guardant and holding her.”

Over nan weekend, Matt’s relative Bear Brown, 38, shared nan devastating news connected TikTok that his oldest relative had died. He was 43.

Bear said that his precocious relative had “been struggling for a agelong clip pinch intoxicant and pinch drugs.”

Matt, his parents and his siblings starred successful “Alaskan Bush People” between 2014 and 2019. The reality show followed their lives arsenic they lived disconnected nan grid successful nan wilderness.

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