Nurse ‘just started screaming’ when she heard she won big North Carolina lottery prize
A store clerk’s suggestion paid off big time for a North Carolina lottery player.
Jasmain Warren, a travel nurse from Winston-Salem, said she stopped at an Exxon on Stratford Road in Winston-Salem to buy a Pick 3 ticket, according to a news release from the North Carolina Education lottery.
“The clerk said, ‘You better get some Cash 5 tickets too,’” Warren told lottery officials “So, we did.”
She was one of two people who matched all five numbers drawn on Dec. 12. They split the jackpot.
Warren told lottery officials that when her husband called to tell her she won $470,130, she “just started screaming.”
“He called me and said, ‘Jasmain, you’ve got to get up. I think we hit the jackpot,’” she said, according to the lottery.
Warren took home $332,618 after taxes, according to the lottery. She said she plans to spend “a good amount” of it on building a new home. She told lottery officials that her husband is earning a personal trainer license, so they might put some money toward a personal training business.
Winston-Salem is about 100 miles west of Raleigh.
This story was originally published December 23, 2021 at 2:46 PM with the headline "Nurse ‘just started screaming’ when she heard she won big North Carolina lottery prize."
