A New Jersey woman won $100,000 playing a scratch-off lottery game while visiting her mother in Virginia.
Shannon Fields won the third and final top prize in the Double It! game with a $5 ticket bought at a 7-Eleven in Suffolk, according to the Virginia Lottery.
Fields, a realtor in Warren, Somerset County, beat the 897,600 to 1 odds to capture the third and final top prize for the game.
The game ended Oct. 3, though lottery officials didn’t disclose exactly when Fields bought her ticket.
When Fields claimed her prize she told lottery officials, “My heart is pumping out of my chest!” She told officials she is in Virginia regularly to visit her mother.
In Virginia, lottery winners can remain anonymous if the prize is $1 million or more. Lottery winners in New Jersey have been allowed to remain anonymous since January 2020.
Jeff Goldman is a morning/early afternoon breaking and local news reporter for NJ Advance Media. He joined the Star-Ledger in 2010 after previously working as a high school sports reporter and sports copy…
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