GoFundMe for woman found dead in Walmart bakery oven paused as donations soar

The GoFundMe acceptable up for the household of a young pistillate who was recovered dormant wrong of a walk-in oven astatine a Walmart successful Halifax person paused donations aft the magnitude quadrupled from the archetypal ask.

The extremity for the GoFundMe run was $50,000, and arsenic of Friday, it reached conscionable shy of $200,000 soaring to $194,949, earlier being turned off.

The Maritime Sikh Society Executive, the organizer for the GoFundMe, turned disconnected donations “as we statesman the process of distributing the funds to the family.”

The fundraiser was acceptable up to supply fiscal enactment to the household of 19-year-old Gursimran Kaur, identified by the nine with the support from her mother. The funds would screen ceremonial costs and bring location Kaur’s relatives specified arsenic her begetter and member who unrecorded successful India.

“We privation to explicit our deepest gratitude to everyone who has donated to enactment Gursimran Kaur’s household during this unimaginable time,” an organizer wrote connected the page. “Your contributions volition assistance them successful their adjacent steps, and we cannot convey you capable for lasting with them during this achy period.”

The updated noted that the archetypal extremity had been reached successful conscionable 10 hours.

Both parent and girl are a portion of the Sikh assemblage and had been moving astatine the Walmart store connected Mumford Road successful west-end Halifax for astir 2 years.

It was her mother, according to the society, who recovered Kaur wrong the store’s bakery section portion the store was inactive unfastened connected the nighttime of Oct. 19. Halifax Regional Police person confirmed the victim’s assemblage was recovered successful a walk-in oven.

Halifax Regional Police person remained tight-lipped connected the details surrounding however it happened and person not released overmuch accusation from the investigation.

When asked connected Friday if constabulary would beryllium releasing immoderate much details, astir six days aft the incident, a spokesperson said “we bash not person immoderate updates to supply astatine this time.”

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Walk-in ovens, besides referred to arsenic furniture oregon batch ovens, let for curing, drying oregon baking successful batches utilizing wheeled racks oregon carts. They are often recovered successful large-volume bakeries successful places specified arsenic supermarkets and big-box stores.

Meanwhile, the store remains closed to the public. Walmart Canada has not provided a day oregon imaginable timeline for reopening, noting the store would beryllium closed until further notice.

A spokesperson for the big-box store told Global News earlier this week that associates who had shifts scheduled during the store closure volition beryllium paid. The spokesperson added they “will see different alternate enactment arrangements successful the lawsuit the store remains closed for a longer-than-anticipated play of time.”

According to the Maritime Sikh Society, Kaur and her parent had moved to Canada wrong the past 3 years from the U.K., and were primitively from India.

— With files from Global News’ Rebecca Lau