UPDATE 11/19/2024 9:15 P.M. PST: One month after Gursimran Kaur was found dead in a Walmart walk-in oven, Halifax Regional Police have deemed no “foul play” was involved.
They said in a statement on Monday:
“The police investigation determined the death is not suspicious and there is no evidence of foul play. Investigators met with family to share this update and extend condolences. Our thoughts remain with them at this difficult time. The family asks the public to respect their privacy and the dignity and memory of their loved one, as they receive this news.”
For now, the mystery remains about how Gursimran got locked inside the oven, though.
For more details, watch the latest update from police (below):
Statement on Sudden Death Investigation pic.twitter.com/0IsyAfMkzX
— Halifax_Police (@HfxRegPolice) November 18, 2024
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One of the most horrifying stories we’ve heard in a while just got… more unexplained.
For those who haven’t read this horrible viral story, a teen employee was found dead inside a large walk-in oven in the bakery department of the Walmart in Halifax, Canada earlier this month. A GoFundMe set up for the family revealed it was even worse. Gursimran Kaur — just 19 years old — had been working at the store for 2 years because that’s where her mom worked. And it was her mom who found the poor kid, who had gone missing for a couple hours during a workday on October 19. Per the fundraisers, Gursimran’s mother said “it was unusual” for her daughter “to switch her phone off during the day.” She went looking, increasingly desperate, until the unthinkable — she found the “charred remains” of the teen who had “burned to death in the walk-in oven.”
But the more we hear, the less sense the story makes. The police dispatcher said the girl had accidentally gotten herself “locked in” the oven. So scary, right? Except… that apparently can’t happen??
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Over the past few days, a number of Walmart workers have posted about how the doors of those ovens don’t close on their own — and don’t lock. From the inside, you’d always be able to let yourself out! Take Mary, who says in her TikTok video that the story we’re being told “doesn’t make any sense.” And she shows it with the actual walk-in oven at her Supercenter:
@mary.w1nchester as someone who worked in the walmart bakery for 2 years, this case is not sitting well with me. my heart goes out to her family and members of her community ???? #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #trending #walmart #halifax #halifaxnovascotia #halifaxwalmart
She showed how the door won’t close without a significant push from the outside — and even when she gets a co-worker to help, she still can just open it from the inside. In a comment on the post, she explains:
“I’m not trying to theorize or form a conspiracy, it’s just hard to wrap my head around it when Walmart’s bakery ovens are so safe to use.”
Her video has been viewed over 4 million times as of this writing. And it has a lot of folks asking questions — especially those who work at Walmarts or with this type of oven. They’ve been taking to the comments to share their thoughts:
“As another Walmart bakery employee: something isn’t right”
“I worked Walmart deli/ bakery almost 10 years . I have been telling everyone I know that the door cannot just close on its own. she better not get fired for showing truth!”
“Guys, the walmart ovens are exactly the SAME in Canada I used to work at Walmart in my university days, exact same ovens. There is training done as well. Wanted to clarify bc of ths multiple comments.”
“So it closed on its own, turned itself on, the emergency button was broken, and there was no cameras or no one around…”
“Thank you for the video!! I fix commercial baking equipment and immediately I was like this is a murder”
Whoa. We wouldn’t go so far as that last comment. But it seems there’s something else going on. Ultimately Mary says she just hopes Gursimran “gets justice if it wasn’t an accident.” Same.
[Image via WENN/GoFundMe]
