HENRY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A Virginia man recently won big with a $566,000 lottery ticket last month.
Henry County business owner, Mickey Shelton, always stops on his way to work for coffee and a lottery ticket or two. That routine took a very unusual turn when he bought a very important winning lottery ticket.
“I had to take a double-take!” Shelton later told Virginia Lottery officials. “I showed it to the clerk who said I’d won $600. I said, ‘No, it’s more than that!’”
Actually, it was a lot more than that. He’d just become the game’s first top prize winner.
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Sheldon won with a choice of either $5,000 per month for ten years or a one-time cash option of $566,044 before taxes. He selected the cash option.
(Courtesy of Virginia Lottery)
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