Lottery winner wants to help people – and buy hunting gear – with $1 million NC prize
A North Carolina lottery player knew exactly how he wanted to spend the money when he saw he won a top prize.
Joseph Duncan stopped at a convenience store in Black Mountain and bought an Extreme Cash scratch-off lottery ticket for $25, according to a release from the North Carolina Education Lottery.
When he scratched the ticket, he told lottery officials he wasn’t sure he had won.
“I just looked at it a little while,” he said, according to the release.
But when he realized he won a $1 million prize, he immediately knew what he was going to do with it.
“Help some people,”Duncan told lottery officials. “Like my friends, my family.”
After his friends and family are “taken care of,” he told lottery officials, he’s going to buy himself some new hunting gear and maybe take a hunting trip.
He claimed his prize Friday and had the choice of 20 payments of $50,000 a year or a $600,000 lump sum, according to the lottery. He chose the lump sum and took home $424,507 after taxes.
His was the first top prize won in the game, which launched this month with three $1 million prizes, the lottery says.
