Fiancé wins big lottery prize — and scans winning Maryland ticket ‘over and over again’
A Maryland man “won a little here and there” after he began to play scratch-off lottery games earlier this year.
But after picking up two lottery tickets at a Germantown 7-Eleven, the novice player was “celebrating with his fianceé,” Maryland Lottery officials said in a May 16 news release.
The Silver Spring man scanned his tickets in the store, lottery officials said.
“I looked and, out of the corner of my eye, I saw this message that said, ‘Go to Lottery,’” the man told lottery officials. “I paused and scanned it again, this time taking a better look at the message.”
After the man, an electrician, confirmed with the cashier that he had won one of the $20 game’s top prizes of $50,000, he called his fianceé and mother to share the news, lottery officials said.
“When he came home and showed me he won, we were so excited,” the man’s fianceé told lottery officials. “We just kept scanning it over and over again.”
The man, an electrician, told lottery officials he plans to use his winnings on “his upcoming wedding” and to pay bills.
Germantown is about a 50-mile drive southwest from Baltimore.
This story was originally published May 16, 2024 at 12:37 PM with the headline "Fiancé wins big lottery prize — and scans winning Maryland ticket ‘over and over again’."
