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Ga. forklift driver buys $434K lottery ticket

Craigory Burch Jr., a Fitzgerald forklift driver, has won nearly half of a million dollars from the Georgia Lottery.
Craigory Burch Jr. has won nearly half a million dollars playing Ga. Lottery Fantasy 5.

Craigory Burch Jr., a Fitzgerald forklift driver, has won nearly half of a million dollars from the Georgia Lottery.

Burch matched all five numbers from the Nov. 29 Fantasy 5 drawing, winning the $434,272 jackpot, according to a Georgia Lottery news release.

The 20-year-old purchased the Quik Pik ticket at H & R Food Mart, 1507 Watson Blvd. in Warner Robins.

"My right eye and hand had jumped for the past two weeks," Burch stated about his inspiration to purchase the ticket. "I knew that I would come into money."

The lucky lottery winner was in disbelief when he discovered he'd won, the news release states.

"I couldn't believe it at first. I was stunned," he said. "I'm still overwhelmed," he stated in the release.

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