Statesville Woman Wins Lottery With Two Identical Tickets
A North Carolina woman accidentally purchased two tickets for the same lottery drawing and ended up splitting a $305,046 jackpot ……with herself.
Susan Gray, of Statesville, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she meant to purchase tickets for two separate Carolina Cash 5 drawings when she stopped at the Kangaroo Express store in Statesville, but she mistakenly bought two identical tickets for the same Saturday drawing.
“I thought it was a different draw,” Gray said. “It was really an accident that I played both. I was really shocked. I couldn’t believe it. Gray won the entire $305,046 jackpot for the Saturday drawing, as she held the only two winning tickets. She said both tickets bore the set of numbers she always uses for Cash 5 tickets. “Those are numbers I’ve been using for years,” she said. My birthday.”
