Police have given an update into the investigation into the death of a 19-year-old Walmart employee, who was found dead in the walk-in oven of a store in Canada.

On October 19, officials were called to a Walmart Supercentre in Halifax, Canada following reports of a young woman having been ‘located in a large walk-in oven belonging to the store’s bakery department’.

An investigation was immediately launched into the ‘sudden death’ of the 19-year-old employee and police have since revealed her passing has ‘been determined not to be suspicious’.

In the days after the young woman’s body was discovered, HRP Constable Martin Cromwell warned it ‘may take a significant amount of time’ for authorities to be able to share any updates as a result of the investigation involving ‘several partner agencies’ and being so ‘complex’.

By October 22, the investigation had ‘not yet reached a point where the cause and manner of death have been confirmed’.

However, Halifax Regional Police has since revealed the latest update in its investigation in a post to Facebook.

In a post shared yesterday (November 18), the police department notes the ‘sudden death’ is not being treated as ‘suspicious’.

The employee was found inside a Walmart store’s walk-in oven (Getty Images/ Joe Raedle)

It continues: “At approximately 9:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a sudden death in the Walmart located at 6990 Mumford Road. A 19-year-old woman, who was an employee of the store, was located deceased in a large walk-in oven belonging to the store’s bakery department. The police investigation determined the death is not suspicious and there is no evidence of foul play.”

Sharing details of the investigation, Cromwell added ‘several interviews’ were conducted alongside video footage being reviewed, the department working ‘very closely with our partners at Nova Scotia Department of Labor and medical examiner service’.

He said: “We do not believe anyone else was involved in the circumstances surrounding the woman’s death.”

The Facebook post resolved: “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.”

Gursimran Kaur was found dead in a Walmart store’s walk-in oven (GoFundMe)

The Walmart employee has since been identified via a GoFundMe page as Gursimran Kaur.

The GoFundMe is calling for financial support for Kaur’s family, whose ‘sufferings are unimaginable and indescribable,’ adding ‘the entirety of the funds will directly benefit the bereaved family’.

A Walmart spokesperson told ABC News at the time: “We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our associate and their family. Our focus remains on taking care of our associates and making sure they have the support they need.”

CTV News also reported Walmart is currently offering employees of the branch on-site support, including grief counselling and access to virtual care.

A police investigation has been opened into the death of a Walmart employee whose body was recovered from inside a store’s walk-in bakery oven.

Officials were called to a Walmart supercentre in Halifax, Canada, last weekend (October 19) at around 9.30pm local time following reports of a sudden death.

Attendees of the branch, situated at 6990 Mumford Road in Novia Scotia, found an unnamed 19-year-old’s body ‘located in a large walk-in oven belonging to the store’s bakery department’.

The identity of the woman is yet to be revealed by police, however, the Martime Sikh Society told CTV News that she had been a member of their community after moving from Nova Scotia a few years back.

The Halifax Walmart is currently closed due to the investigation (Google Maps)

HRP Const. Martin Cromwell stated on Tuesday (October 22) that the investigation into the Walmart employee’s death had ‘not yet reached a point where the cause and manner of death have been confirmed’.

“The investigation is complex and involves several partner agencies. An investigation of this nature may take a significant amount of time,” he explained.

The Halifax Regional Police force has urged the public to be ‘mindful of sharing speculative information on social media’.

“Please be aware of the impacts that speculation could have on family, colleagues and loved ones of the woman.” the statement concluded.

Law enforcement officers are currently collaborating with Canada’s Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service on the investigation, police said.

Following the announcement of the woman’s death, a Walmart spokesperson has confirmed the Halifax location will remain temporarily closed amid the ongoing investigation.

Walmart employees are being afforded counseling sessions in the wake of the woman’s death (Geography Photos/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

“We are heartbroken and our deepest thoughts are with our associate and their family,” company spokesperson Amanda Moss told ABC News.”Our focus remains on taking care of our associates and making sure they have the support they need.”

CTV News also reports that Walmart is currently offering employees of the branch on-site support, which includes grief counselling and access to virtual care.

The publication also states the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration has issued a stop-work order for the bakery and ‘one piece of equipment’.

“As this is an active investigation, we cannot release further details at this time,” the department stated. “Please note, workplace investigations are complex and can take time.”

At the time of writing, it is not known when the Walmart store will be reopened to the public.

A woman who murdered her parents then lived alongside their dead bodies for four years told police ‘cheer up’ when she was arrested.

Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication that she crushed and put into his alcoholic drinks in June 2019.

A day later she also beat her 71-year-old mother Lois McCullough with a hammer and fatally stabbed her.

She was jailed for life with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday (October 11).

Bodycam video footage released by Essex Police shows the moment McCullough was arrested on September 15, 2023, where she can be seen confessing to the murders and telling officers where they can find her parents’ bodies and the murder weapons.

Handcuffed and wearing a pink jumper, she told officers she had slipped something into her father’s drink and put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and hidden her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.

“I did know that this would kind of come eventually, it’s proper that I serve my punishment,” McCullough went on.

Having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, she can be seen in handcuffs telling an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”

“I know I don’t seem 100 percent evil,” she added.

“I deserve obviously whatever’s coming sentence-wise if that’s the right thing to do and that might give me a bit of peace.”

Virginia McCullough was sentenced to life behind bars (Essex Police/PA Wire)

She can also be seen telling police that there was a handbag containing a bank card where there is ‘a lot of transactions that have taken place over the last few years from money that pertains to my parents’.

Further footage from a bodycam shows McCullough at the police station telling officers where they can find the hammer and kitchen knife she used to kill her mother.

Getting tearful and wiping her eyes, she added: “The next bit is very hard to talk about, that’s probably the most grisly detail, so on the ground floor, underneath the stairs there’s a few storage boxes and things and in the middle, I think it’s in one of the boxes or in a bag or something… you will find forensically it’s helpful – there’s a hammer.”

John and Lois McCullough were murdered by their daughter in 2019 (Essex Police/PA Wire)

“I’m trying to help so you find everything,” McCullough continued.

“It’s in the middle under the stairs, it will still have blood on it, it’s rusted but it will still have blood traces on it.”

She added: “Not co-operating is futile. There’s no point in not co-operating, there really isn’t.”

McCullough’s trial heard that she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, UK, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.

She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths she continued to spend their pensions.

Four people have been killed and nine injured in a high school shooting in Georgia.

Yesterday (September 4) at around 10:20am local time, police received reports of an active shooter at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County.

Nine people are reported by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as having been injured, with two pupils – 14-year-olds Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo – and two teachers – Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall – having sadly passed away.

A 14-year-old student from the school has since been arrested and is set to be tried as an adult.

Local sheriff Jud Smith said in a news conference: “Within minutes law enforcement was on scene, as well as two school resource officers assigned to the school who immediately encountered the subject.”

He then described the moment they arrested the young boy, saying: “The subject immediately surrendered. He gave up, got on the ground. And the officers took him into custody.”

Later in the conference, Sheriff Smith emphasized law enforcement had a ‘very swift response’ to the alert of an active shooter and noted he is ‘extremely grateful’ to the ‘partnerships’ between several different authorities in responding to the scene.

The 14-year-old arrested has since been named as Colt Gray, and has been confirmed as being a student at the high school.

The 14-year-old suspect has since been named (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

The teenager is set to be tried as an adult and it’s since been revealed he was interviewed by the FBI in May 2023.

The FBI received anonymous reports that someone was making ‘online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time’ and that’s when Gray was interviewed, alongside his father, the BBC reports.

Gray denied making the online threats and he was not arrested at the time.

The FBI said in a statement: “The father stated that he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them[…] At the time, there was no probable cause for an arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels.”

Instead, local schools were ‘alerted’ for ‘continued monitoring of the subject’.