Woman accused of using cough medicine and water to try to set boyfriend on fire

A South Fort Myers woman whose boyfriend said she poured water and cough medicine on him and tried to set their bed and Christmas tree on fire was arrested early on Monday. Ting Ting Perng, 36, of the 16000 block of Via Solera Circle, was charged with battery.

According to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office report: Just after midnight deputies were called to the Via Solera apartment that Perng and her boyfriend shared. He said that while the couple argued, she poured water and Nyquil on him then tried to set the bed on fire.



She ran downstairs and grabbed a knife, he said. He overheard her saying she was going to set the tree on fire so he called deputies and tried to leave the house. But when she grabbed a knife he fled back upstairs. A deputy saw the spilled Nyquil on the bed, along with burn marks, and he "was drenched in cough medicine and water and had large scratches running across his chest.”

Perng told deputies her boyfriend choked her, but she had no marks on her. According to the report she "appeared to be intoxicated and extremely angry. It was obvious that she was, without a doubt, the aggressor.” While deputies spoke with the couple, she also stated that "she did not try to burn the bed. She would rather set him on fire.’”