18-Year-Old Wins $1 Million Lottery Jackpot In Raleigh On A Scratch-Off Ticket

RALEIGH, N.C. — An 18-year-old who lives in Raleigh turned $10 into $1 million.

“I feel like the luckiest guy in the universe,” Jalen McLean said.

McLean gave his sister some money Tuesday (May 22) and asked her to pick out a scratch-off ticket for him. She chose a $10 Jumbo Bucks ticket from the Valero on South McPherson Church Road in Fayetteville.

When McLean finished scratching the ticket, he couldn’t help but smile. “He had a huge smile on his face,” his sister Dasha Silas said. “Like so big. it looked like the movie character Venom.”

“How many 18-year-olds win something like this?” McLean said.

McLean decided to accept his winnings as an annuity of $50,000, paid every year for 20 years, instead of taking a lump sum of $600,000.

He received his first check on Wednesday. He took home $35,753 after taxes.

McLean said he plans to buy an Audi with his winnings.

This article and photo first appeared on ABC11.