Snack run leads to $1 million lottery win for NC man. Here’s who wants ‘a cut of it’
A man’s snack run led to a $1 million lottery win — and his family is hungry for a share of the prize, officials say.
“They all have decided that they’d like a cut of it,” the lucky winner said jokingly, according to the N.C. Education Lottery. “Now whether or not they get it is a different matter!”
Stephen Howell’s luck started when he picked up snacks and drinks at Fairway One Stop in Haw River, the lottery said Thursday in a news release. The convenience store is in Alamance County and roughly 25 miles east of Greensboro.
That’s where Howell decided to play the Red Hot Millions game before taking his scratch-offs home, officials say.
When Howell saw he won big, ”he couldn’t believe it, so he showed the ticket to his mom,” the lottery wrote Thursday on Twitter.
“I handed her the ticket,” Howell told officials. “And she said, ‘You won a million dollars!’”
It turns out, it was the last top prize in the Red Hot Millions game, which the lottery plans to end.
Howell, who lives in Graham, chose to take his money in a lump sum and got $424,503 after taxes, according to the news release.
“I’ve never really thought about what I would do if I won,” Howell said in the release. “I saved that for when the time came.”
Now, he has at least one idea in mind: his own new car.
“Everyone’s picked out cars for me,” he said, according to the lottery.
