$50K Winning Lotto Ticket Bought While Bowie Man Ran Errands For Wife

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — A Bowie man who stopped at the store to buy vitamins for his wife decided to purchase some lottery tickets. He popped by Hilltop Wine and Spirits to purchase his favorite games plus some straight Pick 5 Quick Pick tickets.

He then headed home for family dinner, but checked his tickets first.

“I checked the website for the winning numbers and saw that they looked awfully familiar,” said the winner. “I immediately went through my tickets and sure enough, I had a match.”

The financial analyst said he was in shock. A familiar player of the Pick 5 game, he knew exactly how much he had won…$50,000.

“I looked at my phone, then back at my ticket, then back at my phone, then back at my ticket,” he told lottery officials . “It was definitely a wow moment.”

The father of four discretely told his wife he won $50,000, so that he wouldn’t alarm his children of what just happened. They kept the secret to themselves as they had dinner with their family.
When claiming the prize this week, he shared with lottery officials that he plans to pay bills with his winnings and help his daughter purchase a car.

Also celebrating the Bowie resident's win is the lottery retailer that sold the winning ticket. Hilltop Wine and Spirits at 6856 Race Track Road in Bowie will receive a bonus of $500, equal to 1% of the prize amount.