SALISBURY, N.C. — A Salisbury man is keeping his promise to his nephew after winning the Carolina Cash 5 Jackpot. Rickey Gunthrope said if he ever won the lottery, he would buy him a car.
On Sunday, Gunthrope won a $200,000 prize!
“My nephew’s car broke down. I said, ‘If I win any money, I will buy you a car,’” Gunthrope said. “I called him this morning and told him to go shopping.”
Gunthrope bought his lucky $1 ticket from the Food Lion on North Salisbury Avenue in Spencer. It matched all five numbers, winning the jackpot.
“I have always played that same combination of numbers,” he said. “I told myself that one day it would come for me.”
Gunthrope said he woke up early Monday morning to check the results from Sunday night’s drawing.
“When I saw my numbers, I just started slapping myself because I couldn’t believe my eyes,” he laughed. “I was like, ‘Am I awake?’”
He took home $142,686 after taxes.
Gunthrope said besides buying his nephew a car, he would use his winnings to do home repairs on a house he purchased a couple of months ago.
Cash 5 is one of six lottery games in North Carolina where players have the option of buying their tickets at a retail location or with Online Play through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App. Tuesday’s Cash 5 jackpot is $110,000.
For details on how $7.5 million raised by the lottery made a difference in Rowan County in 2022, visit www.nclottery.com and click on the “Impact” section.
