An
Atlanta
man is celebrating a lottery win. Phillip Young, 47,
played the Georgia Lottery instant game Millionaire
Super 7’s and won a $1 million top prize.
Phillip
Young with his $1 million lottery check
He
purchased the ticket at MLK CITGO,
3657
Martin Luther King Jr.
Drive
in Atlanta
. He scratched the ticket in the
store.
“I
couldn’t believe it,” he said. “I slid the ticket in my
pocket and didn’t tell anyone. I just couldn’t believe
that it was real.”
Young
has six children. While looking forward to the holidays,
he and his wife, Alecia, have no immediate plans for
their winnings.
“Christmas will be very merry,”
he exclaimed. “Winning is a good feeling.”
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.