{"id":2443200,"date":"2026-06-03T14:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2443200"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:46:39","slug":"the-heartbreaking-moment-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-body-was-found-in-river-by-rescue-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-heartbreaking-moment-alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-browns-body-was-found-in-river-by-rescue-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The heartbreaking moment &#8216;Alaskan Bush People&#8217; star Matt Brown&#8217;s body was found in river by rescue team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The harrowing details about the moment a rescue team found Matt Brown\u2019s body in the river have emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Chay Wilkerson Moore <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/tv\/16443897\/matt-brown-body-found-alaskan-bush-people-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke to the US Sun<\/a> about the emotional rescue mission, saying that he quickly formed a small team \u2014 which included Matt\u2019s girlfriend, Jaime, and his brother Noah Brown \u2014 to search the Okanogan River in Washington State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Basically, we had four people, and they brought whatever we could find, which were kayaks from Walmart,\u201d Moore told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, we literally had two kayaks and a little narrow fishing boat. In fact, I felt that I was too big to get in the fishing boat to assist because, you know, I\u2019m a pretty big guy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Details about the moment the body of Matt Brown (seen above) was discovered have emerged. <span class=\"credit\">Discovery<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Chay Wilkerson Moore told the US Sun that he quickly formed a small team to search the Okanogan River in Washington State for the reality star (seen above in a screenshot from one of his YouTube videos). <span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/abpmattbrown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe all know that river extremely well. I\u2019ve been swimming in it since the 1970s. We know the terrain, and we know our equipment, so we were quite confident that we\u2019d find him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore said they had a plan to man both sides of the bank. Then, a female volunteer spotted a brown jacket bobbing up in the murky water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrown water and brown jacket\u2026 so very difficult to spot,\u201d Moore said, adding that they found Matt\u2019s body \u201cabout 3.5 miles exactly from the entry point where he entered the water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore said there were \u201ca lot of emotions\u201d felt when a volunteer named Charlie located Matt and began praying for him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>During the search, a volunteer noticed a brown jacket bobbing up and down in the water, seemingly belonging to Brown. <span class=\"credit\">Matt Brown\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Moore said they found Matt\u2019s body \u201cabout 3.5 miles exactly from the entry point where he entered the water.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/abpmattbrown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd from that point, they approached the body, and they loaded it into the boat, which isn\u2019t a normal practice for us,\u201d Moore admitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe normally call the Sheriff, have them deal with it. But, being that the current was there, they were afraid that they would lose him. If he went down that river, we would not find him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd being that they were very close to Matt, I think that their adrenaline kicked in and they loaded him into the boat.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The rescue team loaded Matt\u2019s body onto the boat.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/abpmattbrown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>On Saturday, Matt\u2019s brother Bear Brown revealed that his oldest brother (seen above) had\u00a0died. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/abpmattbrown<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rescue team arranged an exit point where Noah and others met them to retrieve Matt\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe picked up the boat with Matt in it; he was covered, and Noah was still in a surreal state of disbelief,\u201d Moore recalled to the US Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJamie, Matt\u2019s girlfriend, was very overwhelmed with emotions, to say the least,\u201d he shared, adding that she was \u201cbeing comforted as Charlie assisted the body down the water, to keep her looking forward and holding her.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Matt, his parents and his siblings (all seen above) starred in \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d\u00a0between 2014 and 2019. <span class=\"credit\">Discovery+<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The reality show followed their lives in the wilderness (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">Discovery+<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the weekend, Matt\u2019s brother Bear Brown, 38, shared the devastating news on TikTok that his oldest brother had<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/31\/celebrity-news\/alaskan-bush-people-star-matt-brown-dead-at-43-after-sibling-helped-pull-body-from-river-brother-says\/\">\u00a0died<\/a>. He was 43.<\/p>\n<p>Bear said that his late brother had \u201cbeen struggling for a long time with alcohol and with drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt, his parents and his siblings starred in \u201cAlaskan Bush People\u201d\u00a0between 2014 and 2019. The reality show followed their lives as they lived off the grid in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, contact the\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\"><strong><em>Suicide and Crisis Lifeline<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u00a0by calling or texting 988.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The harrowing details about the moment a rescue team found Matt Brown\u2019s body in the river have emerged. Chay Wilkerson Moore spoke to the US Sun about the emotional rescue mission, saying that he quickly formed a small team \u2014 which included Matt\u2019s girlfriend, Jaime, and his brother Noah Brown \u2014 to search the Okanogan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2443201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,39212,21913,394403],"class_list":["post-2443200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-suicide","tag-tv","tag-virtual-reali-tea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-heartbreaking-moment-Alaskan-Bush-People-star-Matt-Browns-body.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443202,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443200\/revisions\/2443202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}