Gursimran Kaur was in the store with her mother

Days after an Indian-American woman was found dead in a walk-in oven in the bakery department of a Walmart store in Canada, an employee said she believes the 19-year-old was thrown into the oven by someone else.

Gursimran Kaur was found dead in one of the electrical appliances at the Halifax supermarket on October 19th. She was reportedly found charred by her mother, who had also worked at the store for the past two years.

Last week, police said the investigation had not progressed to the point where the “cause and manner” of death had been confirmed.

“The investigation is complex and involves multiple partner agencies. An investigation of this nature can take a significant amount of time,” said Halifax Regional Police.

However, Walmart employees have suspected that she was locked in a walk-in oven and “baked to death.”

In a video on TikTok, Chris Breezie, a colleague, said that the oven she used while working at Walmart turned on from the outside and that the door handle was “really hard” to open, The Mirror reported on Wednesday.

Here is a demonstration by Walmart employees showing how 19-year-old Gursimran Kaur should NOT have locked herself in the oven at a Walmart store in Nova Scotia.
The media, Canadian police and Walmart are doing exactly what the media, police and Crown Plaza did to Kenneka Jenkins. #Coverpic.twitter.com/VYYOcBZL5s

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“I don’t even know if I would fit in here,” said Breezie, who claimed to be 6 feet tall, as she demonstrated how the oven works at Walmart. “I would have to squat to get in.”

She noted that there is an emergency lock inside the oven and that there are no tasks that require a worker to physically enter the oven.

“I would never be in here whether I cleaned it or not,” she said.

Breezie claimed that in order to lock the oven you had to “push” the latch “with all your might.”

“It’s impossible for anyone to lock themselves in there,” she said in the video.

She said she believed Gursimran Kaur was thrown into the oven by a second person.

According to The Mirror, another member of staff, Mary, said it made “no sense” as the door didn’t close by itself.

“It’s designed so that doesn’t happen. You have to press it and hear the click,” she said.

“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,” she added.

A stop-work order was issued for the bakery and “an appliance” at the Walmart store.

In a statement, Walmart Canada said the company was heartbroken and its thoughts were with the woman’s family.