Margarita Mixed With Oven Cleaner Led To Woman's Death, Says Family #shorts

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Her mouth was on fire. That's what a mother is saying about her daughter after she drank a margarita while out at a Mexican restaurant. So what was in the margarita? Here's Alison Hall.

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Holly Hill was a beloved middle school teacher and a mother of three. But a Valentine's Day date with her husband, Brandon, turned tragic in a shockingly unexpected way. She ordered a margarita at this Mexican restaurant near her home in Oklahoma.

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After just one sip, she ran to the bathroom and called her mom.

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She immediately called me from the bathroom

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and told me that she needed to go to the emergency room.

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What was she telling you?

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She said there was something in my drink,

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my mouth's on fire and I'm not okay.

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At first, doctors thought Holly had simply sipped a margarita that was too spicy. But when her condition got worse, she received a shocking text from the restaurant manager. Somehow, Holly's margarita had been mixed with industrial oven cleaner. The brand name is glitter. It's a grill oven and deep fryer cleaner. And look at the warning label corrosive. A scan showed Holly had catastrophic internal injuries.

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The GI doctor said that her esophagus looked like hamburger meat, that the chemical had ate part of her esophagus.

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Brave Holly kept a heart-wrenching video diary of her struggle to stay alive. She couldn't eat and was forced to use feeding tubes for sustenance. But after two and a half agonizing years and more than 60 surgeries, Holly lost her battle. She was gasping for air and

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flailing her arms around and she said, mom I'm dying and I need you to know that I love y'all.

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I really did not think that she was going to die. How Holly's margarita came to be mixed with a toxic cleaning fluid remains a mystery. The restaurant says everyone was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Holly Hill. The individuals involved in that incident were terminated.

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I would like to see criminal charges and I think they need to be held accountable. I would like to see criminal charges and I think they need to be held accountable.

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A criminal probe has been launched into how Holly was served that deadly margarita.

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