Investigation ongoing into death of 19-year-old Walmart employee in Halifax - Horrific allegations emerging online that the teenager was killed in a walk-in oven.

The investigation into the sudden death of a 19-year-old Walmart employee over the weekend is ongoing in Halifax.

The woman’s identity has not been released, but the Maritime Sikh Society confirmed to CTV News that she was a member of their community. Members say she moved to Nova Scotia two to three years ago.

In a news release Monday, Halifax Regional Police said they were called to a sudden death at the Walmart at 6990 Mumford Road around 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

According to police, a 19-year-old woman who was employed at the store was found dead inside the building.

The store has remained closed since Saturday night while the investigation is ongoing. There is no word on when it might reopen.

HRP Const. Martin Cromwell says police are aware of online speculation about the woman’s cause of death, but would not confirm nor address the information being shared.

“The investigation is complex,” said Cromwell.

“We understand the public is involved, and we just wanted to encourage the public to be patient with our investigation and be mindful that there are family members and coworkers involved.”

Cromwell says Halifax police are coordinating with the appropriate agencies to help with the investigation.

The Department of Labour told CTV News it has not conducted its own investigation into the incident yet.

“The Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration is aware of the situation and continues to engage with our partners the Halifax Regional Police who have control of the scene,” a spokesperson said.

The department said it is unable to share further information at this time.

Walmart released a statement on Sunday, stating the company was aware of the incident and working to support its staff.

“We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our associate and their family. We extend our sincerest condolences to those who were closest to them,” said spokesperson Amanda Moss in the statement.

“We’re also supporting our associates during this incredibly difficult time and have provided access to 24/7 virtual care and will provide on-site support, including grief counselling.”

CTV News reached out to Walmart on Monday, but the company declined to comment further.

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This has been all over Canadian news, and is spreading further. Some huge occupational health and safety implications.

The locals (and employees of the closed store) have been sharing details that the media aren’t reporting.

Apparently is was common for employees to stand in front of the open oven door to warm up when temperatures were cold.

The walk-in oven used to be a closet in the back room that was converted.

The girl’s mother also worked at that store and was supposedly on shift when it happened.

Of all the ways to go, being cooked to death in a closet oven is up there as one of the worst I can think of.

I actually hope she was murdered first, as terrible as that would be.

 

[PhoBingas]

If its the case I'm thinking of, she didn't get stuck in there. She was murdered and then put in there by some guy she rejected.

Or maybe boyfriend saw her being "too friendly" with another guy? Jeets can be notoriously envious, short-sited and petty and locking your woman in an oven seems right up their designated shitting alley.

 

[Dickhorn Magnetbutter]

IYKYK

 

[repentance]

No, its very much a sikh thing and happens rather often in the BC sikh community. Something the media keeps very quiet about

There is a horrendous amount of violence against women in the Sikh community here and it never gets any public attention despite the fact that the victims are often targeted by families or communities rather than just a partner alone.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

“Horatio!”
“What you got for me?”
“Indian woman, Sikh, 19. She somehow ended up in this massive walk in Walmart oven.”
“Yes I can smell that”
We’ve been conducting interviews and it seems she has a history with more than one of the men who works here.”

I guess you could say she was a bit of a…

“Roastie”


HHHEEEYYYYYYAAAAAAA

 

[Dumbledore's Onlyfans]

Something like this almost happened to me and my sister after we stupidly went into a gingerbread house in the forest. The house was owned by a witch of course. Luckily for me she was pretty blind and I pushed her into the oven before she could cook Gretel and me.

Good thing you weren't a fat kid or things would have turned out differently.

 

[Otterly]

You’d think that procedure for cleaning one of these things would be like lockout tag out or something and there’d be a physical blockade to a door closing and it turning on? Like a guard structure that prevents closure of the door that can be engaged?
I’m a bit horrified at the lab accidents but having worked in that environment I could tell you stories that’d turn your hair white. There’s literally zero safety anything when I worked in a lab - we had gloves and goggles and that was about it. No training, no SOPs. Wrote a few myself to try to cover gaps
Despite the fact that a lot of chemicals go straight through gloves. No safety drills or procedures for anything, including large quantities of liquid nitrogen, carcinogens, radionuclide tracers, autoclaves, gas, genotoxins etc. we had a whole bank of anaesthetic gases just there with zero accountability. My boss just had a rule that if you thought you were pregnant you had to say immediately, that wouldn’t fly these days
I personally have spiked myself with at least one fairly nasty syringe of chemotherapy. But the time I left we were starting to have more of a safety culture but it used to be the Wild West.
Poor girl. I hope she was dead before she went in but the accounts of screaming seem to say otherwise. Why did no one help???

 

[Apteryx Retardi]

I hope she was dead before she went in but the accounts of screaming seem to say otherwise.

All of those so far seem to be 2nd/3rd hand/random social media posts. Personally I'm still partial to the "girl murdered and corpse stuffed into oven" theory. However...

Why did no one help???

Oven on some sort of timed program and the retarded jeets employed there didn't know how to cancel it? Oven "fixed" by jeets Indian style with some nigger-rigged override? It was Walmart, wouldn't they have angle grinders and such in tool section?

 

[Behavioral Sink]

So here's the emergency dispatch:

https://youtu.be/HXebm9DK3DM

I've heard a couple of rumours there was blood at the scene. And others that she spurned the advanced of a co-worker, and it was murder. But there are contradictory rumours, so who knows.

The Sikh tiktok propaganda contains some definite lies about the aftermath, and are about fomenting Canada-India conflict.

The store has a stop work order, and is still closed indefinitely. This is the city's main urban Walmart, at a major transit terminal near some poor neighbourhoods. It's long been the grossest, jeet-iest, Walmart-iest Walmart you could imagine.

For several years, there's been a slow process toward redevelopment:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/west-end-growth-node-development-halifax-shopping-centre-1.6810752

But some retirees with too much time on their hands, are emotionally attached to keeping shitty things the same forever. They came to a community consultation with a frigging megaphone, it was mental. But some of the woke posturing was all, "where will poor people shop?" - which was a bit of a valid point. Halifax is a peninsula, and it's the only major store of its kind on it. There are lots of grocery stores and other businesses, but if you need a broom and kid's sneakers and a rubbermaid tote, it's the only sort of general goods department store. People with money for cars go to bigger, cleaner Walmarts like at the business park off the peninsula, but going on the bus is a miserable chore.

Being closed is costing them millions every day, and they're paying the employees right now. (Plus grief counseling, etc.) People are dealing with the inconvenience, because no one wants to think about going there now anyway. Now might be their best shot at ripping the bandaid off, and getting the place closed for redevelopment. Absorb employees into other locations, and dare the nimbys to come shout about saving the oven murder walmart.

 

[Large Rodent]

This is weird. She was found at 9:30 pm on Saturday, I'm assuming that's when the closing shift opened up the oven to clean it or something. But that means she was most likely killed early that morning or late the previous night and nobody had noticed anything the entire rest of the day.

There's absolutely no way an oven baked human being would not be noticeable. Plus, no articles say the oven was used, right? Just that her body was found in it. So either every employee is used to smells as bad as a cooked human (unlikely), the smell was contained enough to not be noticeable (maybe...?), or her body was just hidden in the oven and it wasn't actually turned on.

Since the call didn't come in until late, I'm guessing the area around the oven didn't look like a crime scene, so she was murdered somewhere else and was then moved to the oven to hide the body. Either that or it was a bloodless kill, like strangulation.

Here's my completely unsubstantiated game theory: Her and another employee were closing the store Friday night. Employee strangles her. Employee knows the oven won't be used or even opened for most of tomorrow, which gives them time. Hides the body in the oven. Employee closes up shop and GTFOs.

How horrible. Only 19 and your final day on Earth was working for fucking Walmart of all places. Hope the offender gets what's coming to them.

 

[BulkForceFive]

I agree with the murder hypothesis. It's just too Stephen King-y a scenario where she somehow gets herself into an oven that's otherwise empty AND it's on AND the internal door release doesn't work AND nobody is around to shut it off, or too stupid to do so. You might as well add in the Walmart was built on an Indian burial ground.
"But jeets are dumb!" Yes, and nothing says dumb like murdering your coworker ON YOUR SHIFT, that you are clocked into, sticking her in an over and going 'heh, nobody will be doing the needful and finding her until she is dust and bones!"

 

[RL Steinbeck]

So here's the emergency dispatch:

https://youtu.be/HXebm9DK3DM

Local upload:

 

[The Feline Solution]

Those aren't walk-in, you push a cart full of trays with bread/pastries on it but you never actually walk into it because there's no space for more than the cart meaning that the chick got inside without the cart, somehow locked the door and nobody heard her screams until it was too late, what are the odds?

Sounds mighty indian (sikh, whatever, all the same brown soup) to me, they will find ways to fuck up you and me could never even imagine.

 

[Kosher Dill]

You might as well add in the Walmart was built on an Indian burial ground.

Well, it is now.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

The 911 call mentions the employee "trapped" in the oven which was turned on. Doesn't mention whether the employee is alive or conscious. One offer mentions staff turning the power off -- obviously there should be a power switch on the exterior of the oven, what kind of horror movie shit is an industrial oven that can be turned on but not off?

 

[PhoBingas]

Poor girl. I hope she was dead before she went in but the accounts of screaming seem to say otherwise. Why did no one help???

Oven in question looked like it had a glass door. Hopefully people weren't too scared of getting shitcanned to break the glass.

The 911 call mentions the employee "trapped" in the oven which was turned on. Doesn't mention whether the employee is alive or conscious. One offer mentions staff turning the power off -- obviously there should be a power switch on the exterior of the oven, what kind of horror movie shit is an industrial oven that can be turned on but not off?

If it was a gas powered oven, in theory the gas shut off could have been somewhere the employees didn't have access to. If it was electric, maybe there was some not-to-code safety / breaker bypasses done to keep the oven working if it broke down mid shift.

 

[Whiskey]

I see a lot of people wonder why no one would come to the aid of a person screaming as they burned to death with apparent confusion.

Let a leaf explain this to you. Canada is a hellscape were tweakers are overdosing on the streets doing the hooky pokey on the ground breaking their own bones in seizures.

It's like living next to an air port. After a while you just stop even hearing the screams unless a newcomer points them out. Why do you think state sanctioned suicide is such a trendy thing here?

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

If it was a gas powered oven, in theory the gas shut off could have been somewhere the employees didn't have access to. If it was electric, maybe there was some not-to-code safety / breaker bypasses done to keep the oven working if it broke down mid shift.

All of the images I've seen of the oven model in question show a clearly labeled ON/OFF button.

Like I just do not understand this story whatsoever. There is no such thing as a piece of equipment that can be turned on but not off. I also can't think of how it could be broken or rigged in a way that would make it so.

I also haven't seen an explanation for how or why the oven would "lock" like that. Most food items are baked 325-400 degrees Fahrenheit, a rubber gasket on the door is enough to contain the heat there. Some consumer models have an automatic cleaning cycle that causes the oven to lock, but if this model had such a function I don't see why employees would need to stand inside of it to clean it.

 

[verymuchawful]

.. Walk-in oven? What.

 

[Echo_Doge]

.. Walk-in oven? What.

They aren't that uncommon. A lot of bulk-cooking folks have them, especially caterers.

And in 99% of cases they aren't dangerous because you literally push a specially designed "Oven cart" (Basically baking/roasting racks on wheels) into it, shut the door, and turn it on.

The only time you should ever actually walk into one is to clean it. And most of them have a "Cleaning" setting where it locks the doors open and cuts power to all the heating elements.

 

[AllieKat]

This oven barely BBQ'd one jeet bitch and I'm supposed to believe the Germans burned six million people in four years?