Shamekia
Walker of Moultrie
won a $100,000 top prize playing $100,000 Monopoly, a Georgia Lottery
instant game.
Quick
Mart #0030, 1406 W. Bypass N.W. in
Moultrie
, sold the winning ticket.
Walker
, 21, was shocked to discover the win when she arrived
home.
“I
had a lucky feeling to play, but I couldn’t believe that
I’d won,” she said.
Shamekia Walker with
her $100,000 check from the Georgia
Lottery
She
first shared the good news with her grandmother, Queen.
With her winnings, Walker
said she plans to do something nice for herself and save
the remainder.
Since
its first year, the Georgia
Lottery Corporation has returned over $9.5
billion to the state of
Georgia
for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for
specific educational programs including
Georgia
’s HOPE Scholarship Program and
Georgia
’s Prekindergarten Program. More than 1 million students
have received HOPE, and more than 850,000 4-year-olds
have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten
program.