Mooresville Man Buys Winning $4M Lottery Ticket At Food Lion

MOORESVILLE, NC — A Mooresville man won a $4 million lottery prize after buying a winning ticket at Food Lion on River Highway, North Carolina Education Lottery officials announced Wednesday.

According to NCEL, Kenneth Stewart won the big prize after buying a $20 "Ruby Red 7s" game. Stewart claimed a lump sum payout of the $4 million prize at lottery headquarters in Raleigh Tuesday.

"He had the choice of taking the $4 million as an annuity of $200,000 a year for 20 years or a lump sum of $2.4 million," NCEL said in a statement. "He chose the lump sum and, after federal and state tax withholdings, took home $1,698,006."

The win is the second big lottery prize won by a Mooresville resident this week.

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Stewart claimed his prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh.

Tuesday, lottery officials announced that William Stanley of Mooresville won $100,000 after buying a winning $20 "Gold Rush" ticket from a vending machine at Walmart on Supercenter Drive in Kannapolis.

Stanley claimed his prize, which was $70,756 after state and federal taxes, Monday at NCEL headquarters in Raleigh. It's going straight into savings, he told lottery officials.

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