Lottery jackpot win leaves Virginia couple ‘hootin’ and hollerin’ in the living room’
A lottery player hit the jackpot — and she and her husband couldn’t contain themselves.
“We were both hootin’ and hollerin’ in the living room,” prize winner Christina Groves told the Virginia Lottery in a Dec. 13 news release.
The couple was bursting with joy after Groves tried her luck on a lottery ticket. She was at a Sheetz convenience store in Fredericksburg when she spent $30 to play the 100X the Money game, officials said.
It turns out, the scratch-off ticket was worth $300,000 — the second-highest prize in the game.
“It just kind of feels surreal,” said Groves, who works as a hairstylist.
Lottery officials didn’t reveal how much Groves kept after taxes but said she doesn’t know how she will spend her prize money. She lives in Colonial Beach, a roughly 70-mile drive northeast from Richmond.
It’s not the first time a lottery player has started screaming over their big prize. Another Virginia winner’s husband thought something was wrong when she had an outburst, McClatchy News reported in 2023.
This story was originally published December 13, 2024 at 3:03 PM with the headline "Lottery jackpot win leaves Virginia couple ‘hootin’ and hollerin’ in the living room’."
