Charlotte Pre-School Teacher Loses Job Then Wins $250K Lottery

A North Carolina man is celebrating after winning $250,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket. After losing his longtime teaching job and his father shortly after, Charlotte local Joe Camp has had a rough few months. However, he hopes to turn it around with his recent win.

"I just recently got employed at a car dealership auto sales center," he said. "I was a teacher for 20 years, a preschool teacher, and I got laid off on September 6. A month after that, my dad passed away. And it put me in a dark place. But I have a lot of friends and family that just told me to keep sticking in there, keep believing in myself."

According to WBTV, Camp purchased two Gold Rush scratch-off tickets from a gas station on Belhaven Boulevard. As he scratched the second ticket, he said, he fell to his knees at the gas pump. After taxes, he won a total of $176,876 from the quarter million dollar scratcher.

Camp is already making plans of how he wants to spend his new fortune.

"I want to get a home because I want to set it up for my family, my grandkids," he said. "I want to have something fo us. I never had anything, no one passed anything down, and that's what I want to do."

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