School teacher stunned after seeing huge lottery prize. Then asks son, ‘Is this real?’
While riding shotgun with her son recently, Hazel Walker was passing time playing Virginia Lottery games on her phone.
That’s when she realized she had won a $240,040 jackpot while playing Marvelous Money: Vegas Nights, lottery officials said in a May 11 news release.
“I just stayed quiet for a while,” Walker told officials. “When we stopped, I showed it to my son and said, ‘Is this real?’”
Walker, who is a school teacher from Virginia Beach, said she doesn’t have any immediate plans for her prize.
“I just need to let it sink in,” she told officials.
This story was originally published May 11, 2023 at 10:37 AM with the headline "School teacher stunned after seeing huge lottery prize. Then asks son, ‘Is this real?’."
Moira Ritter
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