Homeless Man Wins $1 Million Jackpot in California Lottery

‘I just can’t wait to get off the streets,’ the Central Coast man said in a video posted on Instagram.
Homeless Man Wins $1 Million Jackpot in California Lottery
Tickets for the Mega Millions lottery on display in San Francisco on June 23, 2005. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
|Updated:
0:00

A homeless man in the coastal California town of San Luis Obispo won a $1 million jackpot in the state lottery this week.

“I won a million dollars here in SLO,” the homeless man said in a post on the Instagram account of the vintage store Thrifty Beaches. The ticket, a Triple Red 777 scratcher, was purchased at a liquor store on Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo, about 200 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Kimberly Hayek
Kimberly Hayek
Author
Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.