Man turns in winning $500 lotto ticket he found, wins nearly $586,000 two months later

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WKRC) – A man turned in a winning $500 lottery ticket he found, then hit a massive jackpot just months later.

According to a release, a man says a good deed may have led to his lottery jackpot after he returned a stranger’s winning ticket months before claiming a prize of nearly $586,000.

The Grand Strand-area winner told the South Carolina Education Lottery that he found a $500 winning Pick 3 ticket on the floor of a Murphy gas station in front of a Walmart on Dorsett Drive in Myrtle Beach about two months before his own big win…

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