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Florida woman says she poisoned boyfriend’s lemonade to shut him up

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A Florida woman told deputies she gave her boyfriend “just enough” poison in his lemonade to shut him up and then called law enforcement “so he wouldn’t die.”

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the incident occurred on Dec. 7, Alvis Parrish, 54, put a psychotic drug in the lemonade of William Carter, with whom she had been living with for nine years in order to “shut him up.” She then called authorities.

An arrest report says when deputies arrived at her home, she was on the front porch and said she did it because he wouldn’t be quiet.

Parrish is charged with poisoning food or water with intent to kill or injure a person