The prize ticket with the $1,000 million dollars of the Powerball was sold in california at a skid row businessan area known for poverty and homelessness.
On Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, It is estimated that there is a population of about 4,400 homeless peopleaccording to data from the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative.
At the same time, It is a demarcation that is home to a thriving migrant community who mainly owns and/or works in businesses in the area.
It was precisely in a store owned by Hispanics that the person who won the top prize in this Wednesday’s raffle bought the ticket.
The winner or winner of the jackpot obtained the ticket at Las Palmitas Mini Market.
“It’s incredible,” Rosemary Guerra told the Los Angeles Times.
Guerra, 21, works at a nearby ice cream shop. “It’s shocking that he could be a person who was working one day and… struggling, trying to get by, and then this happens,” he added.
The owner of Las Palmitas, María Leticia Menjivar, is a 50-year-old Salvadoran.
The woman opened the business in 2017, according to the newspaper.
Nabor Herrera, Menjivar’s husband, is the manager of the space. He said that he believes that the winner is a Hispanic, since many of the customers of the place are immigrants with that origin in common.
Angélica, Menjivar’s daughter, at first did not believe the news. The 35-year-old woman came across television cameras outside the business when she looked at the store’s surveillance app on her cell phone.
“We started receiving calls at 5 am. We thought they were ‘spam,’” she recounted.
The Central American reported that, after they migrated to the United States, this He told his mom that if they wanted to be successful in the country, they had to open a business..
“Start with one,” Angélica urged her mother. “We are immigrants and our family has made the business a success, and we have made this our dream. We have shown that it is possible for anyone to do it ”she considered.
The store will receive a commission of $1 million from the sale of the ticket.
The family hopes to keep the money in a savings account for the grandchildren to use the funds for their university studies.
In the most recent Powerball drawing on Wednesday only one ticket matched all six numbers in the series to win the jackpot. The Lottery had been held since mid-April 39 draws without a jackpot winner. Until this Friday morning, no one had gone to the lottery offices to claim the prize.
The winner will receive a sum of $558.1 million if you opt for a one-time cash payment. Otherwise, you will receive 30 payments divided into annuities until you receive the full prize amount. Both amounts are before applying the tax payment.
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