Lottery player’s mom ‘started screaming’ when she learned of big win in Virginia
A Virginia woman was in disbelief after scoring a major lottery prize, officials said.
“I was just in shock,” Chomedy Hatton, from Suffolk, told the Virginia Lottery, according to a June 27 news release.
Hatton turned a $10 Jewel 7s scratch-off ticket into a $500,000 top prize win, lottery officials said.
“I told my mom, and she started screaming!” Hatton said, according to lottery officials.
She bought her ticket at a Food Lion in Carrollton, about an 80-mile drive southeast from Richmond, the lottery said.
The odds of winning the top prize in the Jewel 7s game, which started June 3, are 1 in 612,000, lottery officials said. The odds of winning any prize in the game are 1 in 5.24.
This is the first top prize to be claimed in the game, and two more remain, according to the game’s web page.
This story was originally published June 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM with the headline "Lottery player’s mom ‘started screaming’ when she learned of big win in Virginia."
