HENRY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC)– A Virginia male just recently won huge with a $566,000 lotto ticket last month.
Henry County company owner, Mickey Shelton, constantly stops on his method to work for coffee and a lottery game ticket or 2. That regular took a really uncommon turn when he purchased a really essential winning lotto ticket.
” I needed to take a double-take!” Shelton later on informed Virginia Lottery game authorities. “I revealed it to the clerk who stated I ‘d won $600. I stated, ‘No, it’s more than that!'”
Really, it was a lot more than that. He ‘d simply end up being the video game’s very first leading reward winner.
Sheldon won with an option of either $5,000 each month for 10 years or a one-time money choice of $566,044 prior to taxes. He picked the money choice.
The ticket became part of the ten years of Money video game; a scratch-and-win from the Virginia Lottery game. It includes rewards varying from $5 as much as the leading reward. The chances of winning the leading reward in this video game are 1 in 2,856,000. The chances of winning any reward are 1 in 4.25.
He purchased his winning ticket at Chatmoss Crossing, situated at 8425 A. L. Philpott Highway in Martinsville, Henry County.