Tragedy at the Halifax Walmart - the death of Gursimran Kaur

The Canadian Gothic

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A workplace death at a Halifax, Nova Scotia Walmart has become international news due to the incidents unimaginably horrific circumstances. 19 year old Gursimran Kaur and her mother worked together at a Halifax Walmart. During their evening shift on Oct 19th, Gursimran’s mother grew increasingly worried after not seeing her daughter for over an hour. She searched the store, asking coworkers for help. But nothing could have prepared her for the devastating discovery that awaited her in the bakery’s oven. In this episode I share what we know about the circumstances of Gursimran’s death and do my best to understand how this may have happened. Provide feedback and comments on the episode: nighttimepodcast.com/contact Links: Gursimran Kaur family fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-family-of-gursimran-who-lost-her-life-at-walmart make a case suggestion: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/contact Subscribe to the show: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/subscribe Musical Theme: Noir Toyko by Monty Datta Contact: Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/nighttimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello listeners Jordan here. I just want to let you know that you can listen to nighttime early and add free on Amazon music
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0:17.0	Hello listeners and welcome to the nighttime podcast. I'm your host Jordan Bonaparte and tonight I'm going to take on something a little different than we normally do around here.
0:32.0	There's a story
0:33.6	unfolding just a few blocks from my house and it's nearly all I can think about and
0:37.8	all anyone in my city of Halifax is discussing. I'm gonna warn you
0:41.9	straight off the jump here. This is a story that's as delicate as it is horrific and one in which facts are coming to light in real time.
0:50.0	As I do my best to share this breaking news, I'm going to be taking you along with me through some disturbing and emotionally charged territory.
0:57.0	And knowing that, I'm going to do my best to present the facts as well as the public discourse surrounding this story responsibly and respectfully.
1:05.0	So let's just begin here.
1:07.0	Tonight in this episode of nighttime, we're going to be discussing the death that recently occurred at the Mumford Walmart in Halifax,
1:14.3	Scotia. It's really sad for us for all our community and I just want to give
1:20.4	message for all of us there should be you know kind of safety
1:25.1	procedures we should follow I mean you have had like it was brutal.
1:31.6	As we move through the story tonight I'm going to be making references to online
1:35.1	posts made across a variety of social media platforms. In this modern world, I suppose
1:40.6	that's how breaking stories are shared anyway.
1:43.0	So with that said, many people first learned some type of incident was occurring at the Central Halifax Walmart as a result of a post made to a popular community page on Reddit. This poster starts the now raging public
1:56.4	discussion with just a few simple words.
1:59.2	Does anyone know what's going on at Walmart on Mumford Road? I heard that there's been some incident between 9
2:04.3	and 10 p.m. Initially, commenters describe seeing a large police and
2:09.2	fire department response outside of the main entrance, But that's not necessarily unusual for this
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