THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, June 4, 1996 TAG: 9606040332
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: 26 lines
A Hampton man claimed a $7 million Lotto jackpot Monday, the Virginia Lottery said.
Althonso M. King was buying his usual Pick 3 ticket Monday when he asked the 7-Eleven clerk to check his Lotto tickets from Saturday's drawing.
``The clerk said, `I think you're a winner,' but I told him I didn't think I could be a winner,'' said King, who claimed his prize at the Virginia Lottery's Hampton Roads office.
King said he found the winning numbers, 2-5-23-27-36-41, in a fortune cookie and had been playing them for several weeks.
King received a first payment of $239,556 after taxes. He will get 19 additional payments of $239,369 after taxes.
It was the second winning Lotto jackpot ticket in six months for the 7-Eleven at 110 S. Armistead Avenue. A ticket worth $24.8 million was sold there Nov. 22. The store gets a $5,000 bonus for selling the ticket.
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