New York Lottery: Convenience store owners buy winning ticket from own storeThe owners of a Russell, New York convenience store discovered a scratch-off lottery ticket they bought from their own shop a month ago was a $5 million winner.
Kenneth Grimshaw said his sister-in-law, Nancy Grimshaw, started scratching off the ticket after she bought it last month, but set it aside on a countertop when she got busy.
She didn't completely scratch off the ticket until Thursday morning, he said. The 46-year-old woman and her husband, Kendrick Grimshaw, have been co-owners of the store in Russell, about 110 miles north of Syracuse, for two decades.
"They are dumbfounded, simply dumbfounded," Kenneth Grimshaw said. "I don't think it's really sunk in yet."
The winning couple declined to comment on their win on the advice of state Lottery officials, the Ogdensburg Journal said.
The couple drove to the Lottery office in Syracuse on Thursday to confirm the win. After taxes, they will reportedly receive $3.38 million over the next 20 years.
They plan to keep the business open, Kenneth Grimshaw said.
