‘No evidence of foul play’ in Halifax Walmart death inside bakery oven: police

Police accidental their probe has determined the decease of a 19-year-old Walmart worker recovered dormant wrong a Halifax store past period was not suspicious, and determination is “no grounds of foul play.”

In a Monday update, Halifax Regional Police said investigators had met with the household to stock the findings, and that the household has asked for privacy.

A constabulary spokesperson declined an on-camera interrogation connected Monday.

Gursimran Kaur’s decease connected Oct. 19 shocked the state and made headlines astir the world, and drew an outpouring of enactment from the section Sikh community.

Kaur and her parent some worked astatine the Mumford Road Walmart, and according to the Maritime Sikh Society, it was her parent who recovered her body wrong a bakery oven.

The store has remained closed since Kaur’s death, and the constabulary probe into what happened continues.

First responders were called to the store astatine astir 9:30 p.m. Oct. 19 for a study of a “sudden death.” Shoppers and unit were asked to permission the building, and the store has remained closed since.

The probe involves Halifax Regional Police, the province’s Labour Department and the aesculapian examiner’s office.

A stop-work bid was instantly initiated for the the bakery country of the store and “a portion of equipment.” That bid was lifted by the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration connected Oct. 28. 

Halifax Regional Police called their probe into Kaur’s decease “complex” and warned it could beryllium lengthy.

Kaur and her parent were some primitively from India who came to Canada astir 3 years ago, and are a portion of the Sikh community.

The 19-year-old was described arsenic “a young beauteous miss who came to Canada with large dreams” successful a GoFundMe run acceptable up by the Maritime Sikh Society.

The nine has been helping Kaur’s parent with uncovering counselling services, raising money, and preparing paperwork to bring Kaur’s household members to Canada.

Balbir Singh, a subordinate of the society, has been speaking connected behalf of the family.

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“They are successful grief. They are successful symptom and they are successful agony astir (the) benignant of concern they are (in),” helium told Global News.

The online fundraiser had a extremity of $50,000, which was reached wrong 10 hours. It has raised astir $200,000 and was closed to caller donations.

Meanwhile, Singh confirmed Kaur’s begetter and member person arrived successful Nova Scotia to beryllium by her mother’s side.

They are inactive awaiting the aesculapian examiner’s study and Kaur’s remains earlier readying a funeral, said Singh.

The Walmart store is inactive closed, though renovations person resumed. The store was already undergoing renovations astatine the clip of Kaur’s death.

In a statement, a institution spokesperson said they were heartbroken implicit what happened and their thoughts were with the woman’s family.

Grief counselling was made disposable to staff. As well, Walmart Canada antecedently confirmed employees were paid for immoderate shifts they were scheduled to work, and that alternative enactment arrangements — including moving astatine different adjacent stores –would beryllium made.

A spokesperson said the institution had offered fiscal enactment to Kaur’s family, which the Maritime Sikh Society confirmed.

The institution has besides told Global News it intends to region the store’s bakery oven.