Someone is $214 million richer after buying the jackpot-winning Powerball ticket at an Indiana Township pizza shop.
The ticket, sold Monday at AJ’s Pizza on Harts Run Road, matched all five white balls drawn, 9-22-57-67-68, and the red Powerball, 14.
The shop’s owner, Jinal Pandit, was shocked to hear he will take home a $100,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.
“Really? I had no idea!” Pandit said. “That’s pretty great.”
Pandit has owned the shop at the corner of Harts Run Road for about four years and said the Pennsylvania Lottery attracts a steady flow of customers. He doesn’t know who bought the jackpot winner.
“I hope it’s someone who needs it and deserves it,” he said.
Marci Thor of Fox Chapel said she plays the three-digit lottery at the shop daily.
She was excited to hear someone won big from the location.
“I think it’s fantastic. I just wish I would have bought that ticket,” Thor said.
The pizza shop is inside a Sunoco gas station.
“It’s convenient, (and) the people are friendly,” Thor said. “Nice inventory (and) everybody’s always smiling.”
Winners have a year to claim their money.
The buyer can claim an annual payout worth a total of $214 million or a $106 million lump sum.
The jackpot had been rolling over since July 3, when the last winner took home $139 million in Ohio.
“The Pennsylvania Lottery congratulates the lucky winner and our retailer,” said Drew Svitko, the lottery’s executive director, in a release.
Monday’s win was the sixth Powerball jackpot this year and the 20th in Pennsylvania since the game debuted in 1992.
The last time a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket was sold in Pennsylvania was in August 2022, when the Sheetz in New Stanton sold a $207 million jackpot-winning ticket.
Staff writer Michael DiVittorio contributed to this report.
