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The brother of the late Matt Brown, recognized for the sequence Alaskan Bush People, has shared detailed accounts of how search and rescue groups recovered his physique from a river in Okanogan County, Washington.

Brown, 43, had been seen by a number of witnesses in the Okanogan River in northern Washington state last week. His physique was later recovered from the water by his youngest brother, Noah Brown, on May 30.

His brother Bear Brown recommended that Brown could have died by suicide and also referenced a wound on his physique that appeared to be “self-inflicted,” though he didn’t present additional particulars on its location or severity.

Noah Brown, 33, spoke to US Weekly about the second the search got here to a close and described coordination with a number of teams concerned in the recovery.

“For the past couple days, I’ve been communicating back and forth with the different search teams. There [were] two separate search teams that were going to look for him. They were nonprofits and we’re all communicating.

“One of the smaller, more local teams decided to go out yesterday, and about – I think it’s 3:20-something, 3:27, 3:28, something like that – they texted me and told me they had found him. So I rushed down to the spot.”

He continued by explaining how the recovery unfolded once the physique was situated. He added that moderately than “leaving the body where it was,” the small search crew determined to load Brown “into a small skiff” and transfer his physique “to shore.”

“Then myself and the rest of the people that were looking hauled the skiff up further on the shore, and that’s where it was… when the coroner came. Right now, all I can say is that he was lost in the river. He was lost in the river and we found him.”

Brown’s physique has been transferred to the coroner, with an post-mortem deliberate. In a separate video message shared with followers, Noah Brown described figuring out his brother after recovery efforts concluded. “It’s late, and I have some bad news. … It’s been a long day. For the past couple days, I’ve been working with search and rescue groups trying to locate the body. And today, the group that I was working with located the missing body, and I identified it as Matthew.

“I was there when we pulled him out of the river. We hauled him up off the bank. And then, after the sheriffs got there and everything, the coroner did his thing, and I went down to identify that it was him. It’s definitely Matthew. His ID and Social Security card was on him, and I was able to visually identify that it was Matthew.”

Law enforcement in Okanogan County confirmed they have been investigating a report of an unidentified man being swept away on May 27. A sheriff’s workplace press release detailed the initial 911 call and response effort. “The 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.”

The release continued with particulars of the search operation. “Additional Okanogan County Deputies responded to the location with one boat, two jet ski type watercraft and an aerial drone. Also assisting in the search was the WA Department of Fish and Wildlife with a boat.

“The search for the male continued until dark at about 8:45 PM and resumed in the morning of 5/28/2026 with watercraft, divers and aerial drone. The search is on-going.”