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.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

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

Gut the entire bakery department down to the studs, and get a new bakery crew as well. I wouldn't want to go back to working in that place after this

 

[Behavioral Sink]

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?

Bread gets baked in the morning. No one had a reason to be in the bakery in the evening. It makes sense mom was the one looking for her, thus the one to find her.

There was no frantic search for a missing employee. Just a mom and daughter who usually text during their shift, and mom probably looking for her discretely and alone when she didn't get a reply.

What brought her specifically to the bakery, or how many other places she looked first, makes me curious.

There were two separate rumours: a boyfriend working there, and a coworker whose advanced she spurned. Those could be two different lenses on the same individual, or there could be two different suspects. Angry men probably do more grisly murder than angry moms, statistically.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

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

Something big like walmart where it's hit the news? They're fully replace it, might even shut down the bakery and remodel it to the other side of the store.

Smaller pajeet independent bakery? They'd throw more bread in whilst the cops are pulling her body out.

 

[Jex]

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

That or we go down the bollywood Sweeney Todd route

Edit: Sanjeev Thod: the demon Walmart baker of Jeet Street

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

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

yeah "died at the scene" / "found dead" is basically the same thing

it means they didn't haul the body to the hospital lights blazing and zapping it every few seconds so the heart keeps beating and the doc at the hospital can officially say they're fucked

 

[melty]

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.

Indian families will chain a girl to the oven and "accidentally" leave it on over dowry disputes and other third world bullshit. I'm suspicious of the mom on this one too because it sounds just like those oven burnings that are common in rural India.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to bring it up but it's literally my first thought when I first saw this story.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/52a/033.html

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

There were two separate rumours: a boyfriend working there, and a coworker whose advanced she spurned. Those could be two different lenses on the same individual, or there could be two different suspects. Angry men probably do more grisly murder than angry moms, statistically.

Yeah I don't think it's likely that the mom decided on a whim to murder her daughter mid-shift at Walmart surrounded by hundreds of people. Middle-aged women are not impulse murderers, statistically. That's much more "spurned male" behavior.

Generally speaking honor killings are conducted by male relatives. If Gursimran's brother and father are back in India that makes the honor killing theory less likely IMO. Especially if the rumor that she had a coworker boyfriend is true, it would suggest that this is not an overwhelmingly conservative family.

 

[Behavioral Sink]

The young Sikhs here can be very fervent and devoted to their religion and identity. But they're not all inherently prudish or conservative in the same way Muslims are. They're "of the world" as you might say. There's often social mixing between men and women, and more modern integrated values.

Just last night I noticed a pair of twenty-something guys with turbans, out with a pair of fashionably dressed young women. Downtown, 10 pm. They were being laughing and casually touchy like healthy young adults. Lots of them date, and choose their own partners.

There's a problem with Khalistani political separatism. But that's a project of ethno-nationalism, more than religious fundamentalism. Being a radical Sikh is about thoroughly modern rap music and machine guns.

There are violent misogynist tendencies in Indian culture generally, than honour killing is obviously very much still a thing. But I don't think there's quite as much pressure on a young Sikh woman here to marry a specific man back home. If anything, there might be pressure to marry a Canadian to secure immigration status. (In the unlikely event family killed over that, it wouldn't technically be an "honour" killing per se...)

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

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

“Dad, this bread tastes like curry”
“They all do son…. They all do….”

 

[KiwiFuzz2]

"Yes saar, we are opening a very modern and efficient tandoor here in Newfoundland. Flipper pie, codfish, and very succulent meat in gravy, very succulent. Slow roasted in juices, and served in a most excellent gravy. You and your wife will enjoy very much, saar. I will please you to enjoy."

 

[George Lucas]

This story makes even less sense now than it did when it first came out.

I’ve been told flesh has a particularly repugnant smell when burned. You mean to tell me nobody noticed the smell for hours? Maybe nobody goes there at the time and it’s far enough away from where the other workers are. In that case, what was she doing in that area in the first place? Foul play is involved. And how is there zero surveillance footage? It’s Canada.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

The young Sikhs here can be very fervent and devoted to their religion and identity. But they're not all inherently prudish or conservative in the same way Muslims are. They're "of the world" as you might say. There's often social mixing between men and women, and more modern integrated values.

Just last night I noticed a pair of twenty-something guys with turbans, out with a pair of fashionably dressed young women. Downtown, 10 pm. They were being laughing and casually touchy like healthy young adults. Lots of them date, and choose their own partners.

There's a problem with Khalistani political separatism. But that's a project of ethno-nationalism, more than religious fundamentalism. Being a radical Sikh is about thoroughly modern rap music and machine guns.

There are violent misogynist tendencies in Indian culture generally, than honour killing is obviously very much still a thing. But I don't think there's quite as much pressure on a young Sikh woman here to marry a specific man back home. If anything, there might be pressure to marry a Canadian to secure immigration status. (In the unlikely event family killed over that, it wouldn't technically be an "honour" killing per se...)

I love how someone's trying to defend the Sikhs even in this fucking thread. maybe this isn't the time or place towelhead.

 

[PhoBingas]

This story makes even less sense now than it did when it first came out.

I’ve been told flesh has a particularly repugnant smell when burned. You mean to tell me nobody noticed the smell for hours? Maybe nobody goes there at the time and it’s far enough away from where the other workers are. In that case, what was she doing in that area in the first place? Foul play is involved. And how is there zero surveillance footage? It’s Canada.

Police might have confiscated the footage. Freedom of information stuff is a lot harder to get a hold of than it is in the US. I have no idea how nobody noticed the smell of burning corpse for hours, maybe that Walmart was extra stinky, but I doubt anything could overpower the smell of a roasting person. If the walmart was ran by crooked jeets they also might have wiped the security footage. I'm sure it could be recovered unless they shredded the drives or something.

 

[WonderWino]

This story makes even less sense now than it did when it first came out.

I’ve been told flesh has a particularly repugnant smell when burned. You mean to tell me nobody noticed the smell for hours? Maybe nobody goes there at the time and it’s far enough away from where the other workers are. In that case, what was she doing in that area in the first place? Foul play is involved. And how is there zero surveillance footage? It’s Canada.

Indeed, and that is what makes me that much more suspicious that its her family that did this, and that they may have had help. I can say with absolute certainty that the walmart does indeed have security cameras all over the store and are in fact required to do so by their insurance company. All walmarts have this requirement, it was explained to me by my supervisor when I was doing overnight shifts in a walmart when I was still doing security. Basically if either the security alarm system or the surveillance system isn't working for any reason their insurance company will force them to have someone on site 24/7 until its fixed, so they hire a security company to send a guard when the store is closed. In short, there is very little of any walmart store that isn't monitored by security cameras. There is no way in hell they didn't catch the victim and whoever did it going in and out of the area that it happened. That means either the cops know exactly who did it and are keeping quiet about it cause its the family and they know the reaction saying so will get from the public, or somebody has fucked with the recordings or made them disappear, which means somebody else had to have been involved as well. That would imply someone in management or security. If its the latter they are no doubt looking into what connections, if any, anyone in those positions may have had with the victim or her family members and for any unusual things like suddenly depositing a sum of money that doesn't fit with their payment schedule and things of that nature

Kinda makes me think there are multiple people involved, as we're talking about a walmart full of people, staff and customer. I'd find it rather odd for anybody to kill someone and take the time to put their body into the oven without someone keeping watch. Otherwise you'd run the risk of somebody randomly walking in on you by sheer chance. and like you said, its odd nobody noticed the smell. You'd think that would have wafted through the store before long and started getting people asking questions about what the odd smell is and where its coming from

Other articles were saying her mother and boyfriend were both on shift with her in working elsewhere the building. Make of that what you will.

Like I said, it comes off as a two person job

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.

It wouldn't be gas powered. In nova scotia gas powered appliances aren't really a thing unfortunately, as despite the province being full of the stuff and having major pipelines going through it, it all gets shipped to the US and the average person or company doesn't have access to it there. Gas is far more common on the west coast (I also highly recommend a gas stove and a wok for cooking. If you haven't tried it, you definitely should)

That said, hopefully there was nothing in her walmart contract that curses her to haunt the aisles of the walmart as free overnight security and to stock shelves all night for all eternity. I mean they already take life insurance out on employees so walmart is technically benefitting from her death. I wouldn't put it past them

I wonder if this is going to lead to some safety changes at walmart. You can bet nobody is going to be allowed to be alone around the ovens and such after this. Perhaps they'll force a larger security presence as well

 

[PhoBingas]

It wouldn't be gas powered. In nova scotia gas powered appliances aren't really a thing unfortunately, as despite the province being full of the stuff and having major pipelines going through it, it all gets shipped to the US and the average person or company doesn't have access to it there. Gas is far more common on the west coast (I also highly recommend a gas stove and a wok for cooking. If you haven't tried it, you definitely should)

Good to know. Not really too familiar with NS. Never stayed longer than a few days. Natural gas is a bit more common in my patch of Atlantic shithole, but its more of a commercial thing. It is in the odd house or apartment though. Way more common to have electric, hot water, heating oil, or heat pumps or a mix.
Part of me worries that if this girl's murder was a grand jeet conspiracy, the media will bury it because it's illegal to point out when the Indians do crimes or something. Our country is a fuckin' joke.

*if you're a leaf

 

[Coldgrip]

You mean to tell me nobody noticed the smell for hours?

They employed jeets. To mention something smells off would be racist, or something.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Indeed, and that is what makes me that much more suspicious that its her family that did this, and that they may have had help. I can say with absolute certainty that the walmart does indeed have security cameras all over the store and are in fact required to do so by their insurance company. All walmarts have this requirement, it was explained to me by my supervisor when I was doing overnight shifts in a walmart when I was still doing security. Basically if either the security alarm system or the surveillance system isn't working for any reason their insurance company will force them to have someone on site 24/7 until its fixed, so they hire a security company to send a guard when the store is closed. In short, there is very little of any walmart store that isn't monitored by security cameras. There is no way in hell they didn't catch the victim and whoever did it going in and out of the area that it happened. That means either the cops know exactly who did it and are keeping quiet about it cause its the family and they know the reaction saying so will get from the public, or somebody has fucked with the recordings or made them disappear, which means somebody else had to have been involved as well. That would imply someone in management or security. If its the latter they are no doubt looking into what connections, if any, anyone in those positions may have had with the victim or her family members and for any unusual things like suddenly depositing a sum of money that doesn't fit with their payment schedule and things of that nature

yeah my dad worked overnights at walmart unloading trucks and shit for a hot minute in the 90s and they did NOT fuck around about insurance matters
maybe Leafistan is different but USA walmart is def a giant pile of assholes however they are assholes who makes sure it's on tape

 

[melty]

This story makes even less sense now than it did when it first came out.

I’ve been told flesh has a particularly repugnant smell when burned. You mean to tell me nobody noticed the smell for hours? Maybe nobody goes there at the time and it’s far enough away from where the other workers are. In that case, what was she doing in that area in the first place? Foul play is involved. And how is there zero surveillance footage? It’s Canada.

There was an episode of Dexter where he kills someone in the middle of a busy airport. He sets up the kill room (room covered with plastic tarps so there's no DNA left) in a baggage area or something. I remember thinking that was really stupid. How you gonna get away with that with so many people and cameras around? How do you find hours in an airport with a bunch of people around to set up and kill someone and nobody notices? It really stretched the already waning credibility of the show.

This is almost weirder. Truth is stranger than fiction.

 

[Wuornos]

Yeah this absolutely screams that another sikh did it. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this turns out to be some kind of honor killing, as punishment for something the family didn't like. Doubly so seeing as the mother was apparently on shift with her

The cops are going to be very, very tight lipped about this one. Even more so than usual given the indian assassination shit thats been going on recently

Unlikely. So-called "honour" killings are an Islamic thing. Sikhs believe in karma and doing good deeds so they're rewarded when they're reincarnated after death. This most likely was a tragic accident. Also, she was heard screaming for help.

 

[WonderWino]

Unlikely. So-called "honour" killings are an Islamic thing. Sikhs believe in karma and doing good deeds so they're rewarded when they're reincarnated after death. This most likely was a tragic accident. Also, she was heard screaming for help.

No, they're just as much of a sikh thing and that community is well known for it. That shit happens on a regular basis in BC, just not usually in quite so blatant a manner. and that was the mom who was heard screaming. It could not have been the victim, as there was no reason for her to have been inside the oven, let alone at that time, they only turn on from the outside and the door does not lock so she could have easily have escaped if she had been alive when the oven was started. To say nothing of the fact the cops are clearly treating the incident as a homicide by their actions