BALTIMORE, MD—A Prince George’s County man is celebrating after claiming a winning $1 million Mega Millions prize.
The Adelphi resident describes himself as an occasional Maryland Lottery player.
“I don’t have a favorite game, really. Not even one I’ve played more than once or twice,” the hospital maintenance worker said. “And, I wouldn’t have bought a ticket that day but for all the talk I heard about the jackpot.”
Everything came together for him at the 7-Eleven store located at 9151 Riggs Road in Adelphi.
“I was on my way home from work when the jackpot stuff popped in my head.” Not quite remembering which of the multistate, big jackpot games everyone was talking about, he bought a ticket for both. “Just to be sure, I got a Mega Millions and Powerball ticket.”
Maryland’s new millionaire admits being “freaked out” when he scanned his Mega Millions quick-pick ticket for the November 8 drawing a few days later.
“Man, all those zeros!” he said. Suddenly nervous, he left the store and headed home. “I kept telling myself that I’d seen $100,000 on the screen, that I had imagined that last zero.”
He claimed his prize this week at Maryland Lottery headquarters in Baltimore.
