Lottery player wins two $1 million Florida prizes in two months. ‘Can’t believe this’
A $1 million lottery winner predicted she would hit the jackpot again — then she did two months later.
Altovise Morris, 41, scored a second $1 million prize, leaving her in shock just after buying her “dream home,” according to the Florida Lottery.
“I still can’t believe this is happening,” Morris said in a June 5 news release.
Morris, an Orlando resident, had her first stroke of luck when she went to a 7-Eleven in nearby Winter Garden. While there, officials said she spent $50 on a ticket of the 500X the Cash game.
That ticket was worth $1 million, and Morris claimed the big prize in November. While at the lottery’s headquarters, she reportedly told officials: “I’ll be back.”
It turns out, she was back two months later with another $1 million ticket. She bought that one in Clermont, roughly 25 miles west of Orlando.
“After closing on my house, I stopped at a Sunoco Foodmart in Clermont, and it happened again,” said Morris, who again beat 1-in-4.5 odds to win a prize in the 500X the Cash game.
Morris decided to take her prizes as lump sum payments, each totaling $820,000, the Florida Lottery said.
It’s not the first time a lottery player has celebrated repeat wins. In South Carolina, a woman who “blessed people” after her first jackpot win had a similar plan after scoring a second prize, McClatchy News reported in April.
