Lottery player ‘had a feeling’ he’d win big in NC. But prize leaves him ‘kind of numb’
One North Carolina man’s dream of buying a house may come true, thanks to his recent lottery winnings.
Lorenzo Williams struck a huge win while playing the Jan. 3 Season-End Extravaganza Lucke-Rewards drawing, winning enough to help fund his purchase of a new home, according to a Jan. 10 North Carolina Education Lottery news release.
“We’ve been trying to buy a home for about three years now,” he said in the release. “This right here will be a big help for us in getting that home.”
He won $100,000 in the drawing, lottery officials said. After taxes, he took home $71,500.
The Kinston man wasn’t exactly shocked to win the big prize, he told lottery officials.
“I just always had a feeling that one day I was going to win the lottery,” Williams said.
The expectation didn’t stop Williams from being overjoyed at his windfall. It made him “just happy and thankful,” he said in the release.
“I was so excited I got kind of numb,” he told lottery officials.
Kinston is about 80 miles southeast of Raleigh.
This story was originally published January 10, 2024 at 6:13 PM with the headline "Lottery player ‘had a feeling’ he’d win big in NC. But prize leaves him ‘kind of numb’."
