Balbir Atwal’s 7-Eleven convenience store in Chino Hills, California, experienced sudden celebrity on Wednesday afternoon as the seller of one of the three Powerball winning lotteries with a record jackpot of $1.5 billion.
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Talking about their future plans after suddenly becoming super rich, Robinson said earlier on the NBC’s “Today” show that his family would help certain friends, give money to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, and donate to their church. None of the winners have claimed their tickets, lottery officials said.
Robinson said he bought the winning ticket at his wife’s request at the family-owned Naifeh’s grocery on his way home from work, even though he wasn’t feeling well.
Robinson said he and his wife were excited about their winnings but were “a little scared” about their future.
“I think it’s easier today to county the number of people who didn’t buy a Powerball ticket than those who did”, Holyfield said.
Late Wednesday, CBS Los Angeles received an email saying nurses in Pomona started “freaking out” when they realized one of the nurses had won. “They’ve got a year to come forward and claim and again we don’t know if it’s a man woman or group it could be anything at this point”.
Two other winning tickets were sold separately at a 7-Eleven in Chino Hills, California, and a Publix in Melbourne, Florida. The mother of two said she had always hoped for smaller jackpots when playing the lottery because she never sought out a lavish lifestyle in the past and “I don’t really want that now”.
The Robinsons appeared on the “Today” show on Friday morning and claimed to have the winning ticket. But they did snap their photo holding the oversized US$1 million cheque at lottery headquarters in the “Winners Lounge:”.
There had been 20 Powerball drawings since November 4, the last time there was a winning ticket for the jackpot.
“We were up all night”, she told the broadcast network. Lottery spokeswoman Rachel Petrie said she couldn’t confirm the Robinsons had won.
Like so many of us, 19-year-old Frederick Walker, of Sanford, Florida, bought a lottery ticket in the run-up to this week’s blockbuster billion dollar Powerball draw.
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“It’s the largest in California history, but everyone’s also calling it the world’s largest jackpot”, said Traverso.
