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Los Angeles Man Wins $1.48M From Powerball Ticket
He bought a $20 Quick Pick at a 7-Eleven and scanned it days later, the California Lottery said.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Amos Tillet won $1,478,686 from a Powerball ticket he bought at a 7-Eleven on the 5700 block of Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, according to the California Lottery.
Tillet said he purchased $20 in Powerball Quick Pick plays, left the tickets in his car for a couple of days, then scanned them at home and saw the prize amount.
“I ran around the living room and, I kind of like, fell out in joy,” Tillet told the California Lottery.
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He also recalled a conversation at the counter when he purchased the ticket.
“I told the guy, ‘Man, I’ll be happy with a million.’ Sure enough, kind of what I ended up with,” he told the California Lottery.
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