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.

 

[Dumbledore's Onlyfans]

So she’s been in there for hours, more likely than not.

Either way, at this stage I think anything is possible with how/why she was in there.

IDK because we don't know what temperature the oven was set to, and whether there was any holes poked in her before she was put in the oven. There are a lot of variables.

 

[Coldgrip]

IDK because we don't know what temperature the oven was set to, and whether there was any holes poked in her before she was put in the oven. There are a lot of variables.

Was there a side dish planned?

 

[PhoBingas]

Makes sense that the police are telling everyone involved to be tight lipped about this. Hopefully the police catch whoever is involved (assuming the killer is a Jeet that doesn’t just flee the country).

Whoever did it was probably headed to the airport or already on a plane by the time it hit the news.

Either way, at this stage I think anything is possible with how/why she was in there.

20 CoachCoins™ says it was an honor killing and her mom and boyfriend were in on it.

 

[BulkForceFive]

I worked with an over just like this when I was a bakery clerk, except ours had a much larger proof box attached to it.
There was no way to lock yourself in it and get it started, someone did this deliberately.
My boss would get irritated with me because I would refuse to get inside the thing to clean it.

I do hope the poor girl was dead beforehand.

I was going to say, I don't know shit about commercial ovens but they're not like industrial kilns or furnaces where you have serious heat and potentially pressure inside, so I don't see why the oven door would have anything more than a spring/magnetic closure like a kitchen oven. The bread isn't gonna fucking try to escape. The idea that this thing had some heavy-duty locking assembly that couldn't be forced open doesn't make sense.

 

[Jex]

>The door doesn’t lock
Bitter bf Rajesh nipped down to the home accessories aisle and got himself a door wedge

 

[MadStan]

I hear the suspect cooked up some half-baked alibi.

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

The victim’s name may also have been Simran Kaur, but don’t quote me on that as I’m not 100% sure it is her.

Gursimran Kaur

 

[Pipit]

Sorry for posting the daily mail. It seems her identity has been confirmed as what was speculated.

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23:13 AEDT 24 Oct 2024, updated 23:53 AEDT 24 Oct 2024By Brittany Chain For Dailymail.Com

This is the teenage girl who 'baked to death' in a Walmart walk-in oven, only to be found by her own mother.

Gurismran Kaur, 19, was working alongside her unnamed mother at the store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday evening when she met the horrific fate.

A GoFundMe set up to raise money for the youngster explained that Kaur's mother would regularly check in on her daughter while they worked shifts together.


But she became worried when she hadn't seen her in the store for an extended period and went searching for her.

She ended up finding her daughter's 'charred remains' inside the bakery oven when another staff member noticed 'leakage' coming from the area.

Gursimran Kaur, 19, tragically died in the Halifax superstore she worked at in Nova Scotia on Saturday night

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A family spokesperson has since said Gursimran's relatives are crushed by her tragic death.

According to the community appeal, Gursimran's 'charred remains were found inside the walk in oven in the Bakery after a few hours.

'Imagine the horror that her mother experienced who herself opened the oven, when someone pointed out to the ''leakage'' from it.'

Gursimran's phone was 'unreachable', which is when her mother began panicking, as it was 'unusual for her to switch her phone off during the day.'

'Gursimran's mother tried to locate her after not seeing for one hour,' the Maritime Sikh Society Executive said in the appeal, which has already raised $46,000.

'She asked around, but everyone brushed aside thinking that she may be somewhere helping a customer.'

Gursimran has been remembered as a 'beautiful girl who came to Canada with big dreams.'

She and her mother arrived in Nova Scotia less than three years ago.

Her father and brother are still in India, and the community are frantically trying to raise the funds to get them over to Canada.

'This family's sufferings are unimaginable and indescribable. They need your support to get through this horrific time,' the appeal read.

Harjit Seyan, president of Canada’s Maritime Sikh Society, told Global News that his community has been supporting the Gursimran's traumatized family since her death on October 19.

'The immediate family is absolutely shocked,' Seyan said.

'They are in a kind of a trauma. We are really sorry to hear of such a tragic event.'

Harjit Seyan, president of Canada¿s Maritime Sikh Society, told Global News that his community has been supporting the family of a Walmart worker who died in a walk-in oven

Mourners have been arriving at the superstore in droves since the tragedy, laying flowers and paying tribute to the victim and her family
It comes after Canada's national broadcaster CBC News said their sources had told them the appliance at the Halifax store 'did not lock.'

That raises disturbing new questions about the death, with previous reports highlighting a 911 call that said the woman was trapped in the oven.

Mourners have been arriving at the superstore in droves since the tragedy, laying flowers and paying tribute to the victim and her family.

The young woman had only arrived in Canada within the last three years and had formed close bonds with the Maritime Sikh Society.

'It's pretty distressing given young people come here with hopes and dreams,' board member Satnam Singh Randhawa previously said.

'They're working hard and this is what happens.'

The oven was industrial and large enough for a person to step inside.


While the exact brand of the oven involved in the incident has not yet been revealed, other Walmart stores around the United States are known to have ovens like the one pictured installed


Singh expects a religious service to be held in Halifax after the woman's body is released by the medical examiner, who is still determining her official cause of death. An altar at the victim's temple is pictured
911 call reveals how a 19-year-old Walmart employee died in oven mishap

Police told the publication that the young woman had been working the day of the tragedy. Officers are no longer on the scene, but an investigation is still ongoing.

The Nova Scotia Department of Labour has since issued a 'stop work order' for the bakery itself, as well as one piece of Walmart equipment. They have not specified which piece of equipment is under that order.

Balbir Singh, secretary of the Maritime Sikh Society, said the victim's mother is also in Canada, and is receiving 'psychological counselling.'

'Efforts are underway to bring other immediate family members from India,' he said.

Singh expects a religious service to be held in Halifax after Gursimran's is released by the medical examiner, who is still determining her official cause of death.

Distressing audio of the emergency services dispatch call has since been released, detailing the unfolding tragedy to first responders.

The dispatch officer said there was a 'female locked in an oven in the bakery.'

'Oven is on. Unsure if staff are able to turn it off.'


Police told the publication that the young woman had been working the day of the tragedy. Officers are no longer on the scene, but an investigation is still ongoing

The teenager was working at the Halifax store in Nova Scotia when she became trapped inside a walk-in oven in the bakery on Saturday night
By the time first responders arrived on the scene, they told dispatch the woman 'was out of the oven.'

She died at the scene.

Martin Cromwell, a police officer in Halifax, described the investigation was 'complex.'

He said: '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.'

Walmart Canada said they were 'heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our associate and their family. We extend our sincerest condolences to those who were closest to them.'

Staff rostered on to work this week will still be paid despite store closures. The store will remain closed until further notice.


A dispatch officer described the unfolding tragedy to first responders, revealing there was a 'female locked in an oven in the bakery.'
The statement continued: '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.'

Halifax Regional Police said: 'On October 19 at approximately 9:30 pm police were called to a sudden death at Walmart located at 6990 Mumford Road. A 19-year-old woman employed at the store was found deceased.


'Investigators are working closely with Occupational Health and Safety and the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service to determine the cause and manner of death.

'The investigation is in the early stages no further details are available at this time

This is the teenage girl who 'baked to death' in a Walmart walk-in oven, only to be found by her own mother.

Gurismran Kaur, 19, was working alongside her unnamed mother at the store in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday evening when she met the horrific fate.

She ended up finding her daughter's 'charred remains' inside the bakery oven when another staff member noticed 'leakage' coming from the area.

It comes after Canada's national broadcaster CBC News said their sources had told them the appliance at the Halifax store 'did not lock.'

That raises disturbing new questions about the death, with previous reports highlighting a 911 call that said the woman was trapped in the oven.

I’m unsure if this is all verified, but acknowledging the suspicious circumstances in a published article is pretty ballsy.

 

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Whoever did it was probably headed to the airport or already on a plane by the time it hit the news.

20 CoachCoins™ says it was an honor killing and her mom and boyfriend were in on it.

It's a bit weird to me how often the articles I have been reading talk about bringing the family to Canada; I gather that's what the GoFundMe is also for. A bitter part of myself wonders if this entire thing was engineered so the mother could bring over her husband and son, who were, for whatever reason, not eligible to enter Canada with her and the daughter

 

[Pipit]

It's a bit weird to me how often the articles I have been reading talk about bringing the family to Canada; I gather that's what the GoFundMe is also for. A bitter part of myself wonders if this entire thing was engineered so the mother could bring over her husband and son, who were, for whatever reason, not eligible to enter Canada with her and the daughter

I think it’s incredibly coincidental her “unnamed” mother was the person to “find” her.
Not any of the other 500 employees at that location?
Not the other employee who initially noticed the “leakage”?

I hadn’t seen this mentioned in any news report until recently. Now it’s on most.

Awfully convenient…

 

[Terfmaster9000]

Whoever did it was probably headed to the airport or already on a plane by the time it hit the news.

Only if they are smart. And if it's a jeet, they are not. Probably going on business as usual.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

So she’s been in there for hours, more likely than not.

Either way, at this stage I think anything is possible with how/why she was in there.

I don't know how long it takes a body in an oven to start leaking from cooking, and I refuse to look it up for the sake of my sanity, but I'm assuming she must have at least been in there for a few hours with the oven turned on, and having actually done wagie work where I'd put bread/cookies/etc into these very same kind of machines, none of those baked goods required being in the oven for more than 20-30 minutes, so I think someone must have intentionally set the timer on the outside...

 

[RodgerDodger]

Nothing looks as terrifying to me as those walk in ovens.
does that shit have any security to let yourself out if someone closes the door on you and turns the oven on?
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The doors should just push open from the inside. There's no latch. Just a spring stop at the top or bottom to keep the doors from swinging open. You should ot need more than 5lbs of force to open an oven door. Unless it is one of those fancy bagel ovens that have a high pressure steam cycle to simulate boiling the dough.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

I think it’s incredibly coincidental her “unnamed” mother was the person to “find” her.

I mean she was the only one looking for her it sounds like.

It's a bit weird to me how often the articles I have been reading talk about bringing the family to Canada; I gather that's what the GoFundMe is also for. A bitter part of myself wonders if this entire thing was engineered so the mother could bring over her husband and son, who were, for whatever reason, not eligible to enter Canada with her and the daughter

I'm all for conspiratorial thinking but if I had family abroad I was trying to get visas for, I'd try a few routes before I'd move on to having my teenage daughter murdered in the most horrific manner imaginable.

I’m unsure if this is all verified, but acknowledging the suspicious circumstances in a published article is pretty ballsy.

It's the Daily Mail, one of the sleaziest tabloids in the world. What do you expect?

 

[Male Idiot]

She mistook the oven for a designated shitting place. Do not redeem poo inside oven, show bobs first!

 

[ATI Escapee]

Might be a dumb question, but what does 'died at the scene' mean? If she was found deceased by authorities, would they say 'found dead at the scene'? The wording feels like she was alive, but died before she could be helped... at least how it would be phrased around here. Someone dying at the scence of a car accident usually means the paramedics couldnt save them, but had the opportunity to attempt to do so. Idk if this is a regional dialect type thing, I sure hope so- I hope she didnt suffer too much

 

[RodgerDodger]

When you cook a roast, it's normal for juices and melted fats to seep out into the bottom of the pan. If you didn't use a pan, it would make a real mess out of the bottom of your oven, just sayin

But it normally would not be what people recognize as blood.

And they will need to tear that Walmart down and build new just to get the smell out, if she was in fact cooked. It doesn't smell like barbecue. It smells like your worst nightmare in smell form. And it does not go away.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

Might be a dumb question, but what does 'died at the scene' mean? If she was found deceased by authorities, would they say 'found dead at the scene'? The wording feels like she was alive, but died before she could be helped... at least how it would be phrased around here. Someone dying at the scence of a car accident usually means the paramedics couldnt save them, but had the opportunity to attempt to do so. Idk if this is a regional dialect type thing, I sure hope so- I hope she didnt suffer too much

I have a feeling it's a dialect thing, otherwise it implies she might have had a pulse when they pulled her out. If she was leaking fluids, she wouldn't still have a pulse.

 

[UsedUp]

Will they replace this oven entirely now or is every loaf tainted with the taste of pajeet flesh from now on?

 

[ElHijodeDeficienciaCogni]

It's a bit weird to me how often the articles I have been reading talk about bringing the family to Canada; I gather that's what the GoFundMe is also for. A bitter part of myself wonders if this entire thing was engineered so the mother could bring over her husband and son, who were, for whatever reason, not eligible to enter Canada with her and the daughter

When dealing with Pajeets speculating on the most immoral fucked up thing you can imagine is usually the safest bet.