KING GEORGE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A King George County man went into a Sheetz on Route 3 and left with a scratch-off ticket worth $5 million.
When Dennis Rector realized he had won the grand prize in the Virginia Lottery $5 Million Ultimate Scratcher on Tuesday, June 7, the first thing he did was call his wife, who told him to “get home safely.”
Rector, who elected to receive a one-time cash payout of about $3.2 million instead of installments over 30 years, says he plans to use the money to pay bills and save the rest for retirement.
Sheetz will receive $10,000 for having sold the $5 million ticket, of which there are only three of a total of 7,344,000.
The odds of winning the grand prize were 1 in 2,448,000.
