Slatten said in a press release issued by the lottery administration that he was astonished after discovering that he had won this fortune, and then rushed to his fiancee’s workplace to inform her of the happy news, and spent the rest of the day performing some tasks, including taking his brother to an auto parts store, before Realizes that the winning ticket is missing.
After recovering from the tasks he did throughout the day, however, he returned to the parking lot attached to the auto parts store in a desperate attempt to find the lottery ticket, where he found it lying on the ground next to another car.
Nick Slatten expressed his surprise during his statements, saying, “It is a ticket worth one million dollars and someone passed directly over it,” stressing that he and his fiancee intend not to give up their work and are planning to buy a house and invest the remaining prize money.
