18-year-old wins $1M lottery prize after his sister bought a $10 scratch-off ticket

A man in Raleigh, North Carolina, turned a $10 scratch-off ticket into a $1 million prize.

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The North Carolina Education Lottery said Jalen McLean, 18, gave his sister some money on Tuesday so she could pick up a scratch-off ticket for him. She ended up choosing a $10 Jumbo Bucks ticket from a Valero gas station in Fayetteville and brought it home to him.

“He had a huge smile on his face,” his sister Dasha Silas recalled. “Like so big it looked like the movie character Venom.”

McLean is the youngest of five siblings, according to WRAL .

“How many 18-year-olds win something like this?” he said, according to the news outlet.

McLean picked up his prize on Wednesday. He chose to get an annuity of $50,000 over the next 20 years. According to WRAL , that means he will get a $50,000 check for the next 19 years until he gets the full $1 million prize.

He got his first prize on Wednesday and took home $35,753 after taxes, the news station reported.

“I feel like the luckiest guy in the universe,” he said, according to lottery officials .