In a press launch issued on Monday, November 18, investigators with the Halifax Regional Police reported that they’ve decided Kaur’s demise as not suspicious.

“At the moment, I can share that our investigation has not led us to suspect foul play,” stated the division’s public info officer, Martin Cromwell, in a video assertion. “We don’t imagine anybody else was concerned within the circumstances surrounding the lady’s demise.”

Cromwell detailed that via the course of the continued investigation, authorities had “performed a number of interviews, reviewed video footage and labored very carefully with our companions on the Nova Scotia Division of Labor and Medical Examiner Service.”

In response to the police division, the Division of Labor and medical expert service are persevering with to look into the case, however as police “don’t imagine the demise to be suspicious,” they are going to be providing no additional updates, “out of respect for the household.”

“The household asks the general public to respect their privateness and the dignity and reminiscence of their beloved one, as they obtain this information,” the Halifax Regional Police stated of their launch.

In response to a GoFundMe launched within the wake of the tragic demise of the teenager worker, it was her mom — who was additionally employed on the retail large — who discovered her physique.

“Think about the horror that her mom skilled who herself opened the oven,” the put up states.

Audio of the police response to the incident was detailed by The Every day Mail, with the dispatch officer describing the scenario as a “feminine locked in an oven within the bakery” and the “oven is on.” Sources subsequently advised CBC Information that the equipment on the retailer “didn’t lock.”

Police first responded to the Walmart location on Saturday, October 19, reporting in a press launch October 22 that she “was positioned in a big walk-in oven belonging to the shop’s bakery division.” The Walmart retailer was “closed till additional discover,” per the corporate, within the wake of Kaur’s demise.

Walmart spokesperson Amanda Moss advised Individuals on October 23 that employees on the retailer are “heartbroken.” She went on so as to add, “Our deepest ideas are with our affiliate and their household. Our focus stays on caring for our associates and ensuring they’ve the help they want.”

Talking with the CBC, Satnam Sing Randhawa, chair of the Maritime Sikh Society board, confirmed that the worker was a member of the Sikh neighborhood. “It is fairly distressing, you understand, younger folks come right here with every kind of hopes and desires they usually’re working arduous after which that is what occurs,” he stated.

The group moreover advised the outlet that they’ve been in touch with the younger girl’s mom, sharing that the 2 had been initially from India and had moved to Canada two to a few years in the past.