"Did he buy it here though?" Who is the mystery $1M Powerball winner in Racine?
“Did he buy it here though?” Who is the mystery $1M Powerball winner in Racine?
"Did he buy it here though?" Who is the mystery $1M Powerball winner in Racine?
RACINE (WITI) -- The frenzy was hot on these cold Wisconsin temperatures on Wednesday, February 11th, as buyers of Powerball tickets hoped to be the half a billion dollar-plus winner. No one matched all those numbers in the state, but a Wisconsin Powerball ticket holder is $1,000,000 winner. "I got up this morning and I saw that someone in Racine had won the million dollars and I thought 'oh, cool'. And I got to work and I punch the number into the lottery machine to bring it up and all of a sudden the ticket popped up and it said that the million dollar winner was sold here at Durand Mart and I was like 'Oh yeah!" said Jodi Peterson, works at Durand Avenue Mart in Racine. And the excitement hasn't subsided in the store. Everybody's talking about the $1,000,000 winner, but we don't know who actually bought that ticket. Robin Craig Gillespie came back to the store to cash-in what she thought was a $4 winning. "Four dollars, you got four dollars? Well that's what I thought it was, but it was $20! Wow," said Gillespie. Although Gillespie is sarcastic, she is still hopeful as her son bought a ticket too, but he's being a bit cagey about it. "Did he buy it here though? I don't know if he did or not, he won't tell me. That's a real mystery. I hope he did anyway," said Gillespie. Gillespie said she'll give FOX6 News a call if her son is the winner. For selling the $1,000,000 ticket, Durand Avenue Mart in Racine will get some cash as too. But, they're still trying to figure out from the lottery people just how much that is.