LANSING, MI -- The winner of the Michigan Powerball $337 million is Don Lawson, 44, of Lapeer.
"I fell backwards and I kind of lost my breath."
He is a 44-year-old railroad worker from Lapeer.
The winner was announced Friday morning at a press conference at the Michigan Lottery headquarters in Lansing.
Lawson aforementioned he can still be an equivalent person.
"I'm a rich person currently however i will still eat McDonald's. I don’t like filet."
The winning price tag was oversubscribed at the Odish Family Market and Sunoco petrol station on the northside of Lapeer.
A photo of the price tag and therefore the giant check were displayed because the winner was declared.
Lawson aforementioned he might barely breathe once he won. He unbroken moving the price tag round the house for guardianship before taking it to the bank.
"Everybody simply started returning to the house. (I place the ticket) on my Bible. I put to sleep my couch. it had been on prime of my white goods," he said.
He has 2 kids and has lived in Lapeer for ten years, and may be a Arkansas native. He worked the late shift at at a railroad company, he said. He aforementioned he quit his job the day he recognized he won.
He had a pleasant sense of humor.
"Does that return tax free?" he joked with Lottery Commissioner Scott Bowen UN agency place the name on his check. "My name goes there."
Local, state and national media all converged on the lottery headquarters in Lansing to be told UN agency the winner was. the tiny area was jam-choked with media.
The winning {ticket|price tag|price price tag} had all the numbers correct -- thusle} ticket within the nation to try and do so -- within the August. 15 drawing. it's the biggest prize ever given get into the Michigan Lottery's history. The winning numbers were 06-27-46-51-56 with a Powerball of twenty one.
It is the third largest in Powerball history and seventh largest in U.S. history.
The winner has the choice of taking a payment payment of $241 million or taking yearly payments. Taxes can take an enormous chunk out of that.
Powerball is contend in forty two states, and Washington D.C. Per lottery rules, the winner needs to be known. Lottery officers say they require to point out those that they really disclose the money prize.
The store can get a $50,000 money payment for commercialism the price tag.
Lapeer was buzzing on August. sixteen with the media attention -- all the Flint-area TV stations were there likewise because the metropolis TV stations and newspapers. farewell America even sent a crew from Chicago.
Workers from McLaren Lapeer, that is adjoining, were reckoning on curiously in the slightest degree the media attention. everybody was talking concerning the lottery, and inquisitive simply UN agency the winner was.
That question was answered on weekday.
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