BURKE, VA – Construction worker Nicholas Perez of Burke won the $1 million prize in the April 1 Powerball drawing.
The jackpot that day reached one billion dollars. Perez bought his ticket at a local Safeway store in Alexandria. The winning numbers in the draw were 19-24-40-42-56 and Powerball 23.
His ticket matched the first five numbers, making it the only winning ticket in Virginia and one of only six in the nation. While the probability of winning the jackpot by matching all six numbers is 1 in 292.2 million, the probability of winning the prize in Powerball is 1 in 25.