A 26-year-old Atlanta man was cleaning his room and happened to discover a winning lottery ticket….worth one million dollars!!!
Gregory Jarrett had matched five numbers in the PowerBall drawing of Jan. 15, but had apparently forgotten he had played.
“I called for my mom, and I walked toward her, shaking,” he said in a statement released by the Georgia Lottery. “She verified it, and at that point we hugged.”
Jarrett, who said in the statement that he picked the numbers — 7, 8, 9, 24 and 29 — based on his siblings’ birthdays, claimed the prize last week.
Georgia Lottery officials said they hadn’t been able to reach Jarret since his win.
Under Georgia lottery rules, he had six months to claim the prize.
