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A body pulled from a Washington state river has been identified as that of \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d cast member Matt Brown.<\/p>\n

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The Okanogan County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the body was discovered in the Okanogan River on Saturday by a private search team and subsequently identified as Brown\u2019s by the county coroner.<\/p>\n

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The coroner will determine the cause and manner of death, the sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement Sunday, sending condolences to the Brown family.<\/p>\n

His brothers, Noah and Bear Brown, made emotional announcements about their brother\u2019s untimely death on verified social media accounts. Noah said he was there when Brown\u2019s body was pulled from the water.<\/p>\n

\u201cI identified it as Matthew,\u201d Noah said on Instagram. \u201cMy oldest brother, Matthew Brown, has passed away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown was a cast member of Discovery\u2019s reality show \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d from its debut in 2014 until 2019, according to IMDb. The show follows the Brown family as it lives deep in the Alaskan wilderness.<\/p>\n

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During that time, Brown was open about struggles with alcohol.<\/p>\n

Bear Brown alluded to Brown\u2019s struggles in a TikTok video.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have never suspected he would have hurt himself, honestly,\u201d Bear said. \u201cHe struggled for a long time, as I\u2019ve mentioned. And I was so worried he was going to end up like OD\u2019d or something like that. I didn\u2019t think that he would hurt himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Family patriarch Billy Brown died in 2021.<\/p>\n

Efforts to reach a representative for Brown late Sunday were unsuccessful. Representatives of Warner Bros. Discovery did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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The sheriff\u2019s office said Wednesday that it launched a search after a caller reported having spoken to a man sitting in a shallow part of the river south of the city of Oroville, in north-central Washington.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA caller reported to Okanogan 911 that he had just spoken to a male sitting in the shallow water,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said. \u201cThe caller turned away from the man sitting in the river, heard a sound, turned back toward the man in the water and saw the man was face down in the water drifting away in the current.\u201d<\/p>\n

A gun was found Wednesday near where the man in the water was seen, the office said.<\/p>\n

In his video, Bear Brown appeared to allude to a gunshot being apparent after the coroner examined his brother\u2019s body. \u201cIt does look as though the entry is self-inflicted,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

State and local first responders joined sheriff\u2019s personnel for multiple searches. Noah Brown said that two volunteer search groups joined the effort and that the one he was in found the body Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay your prayers and tell people that you love that you love them while you can,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 or go to <\/em>988lifeline.org<\/em> to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or visit <\/em>SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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