A young lottery winner has been murdered during a robbery at his home. Craigory Burch Jr, 20, scooped almost half a million dollars in the Georgia state lottery Fatasy5 draw in November.
On Thursday night, armed raiders broken into Burch's home, where he was with his girlfriend and children, WALB reported. The
three masked robbers burst into the property and held Burch at gunpoint
and demanded his wallet, girlfriend Jasmine Hendricks said.
She
told the local station: "When they came in, he said, 'don't do it bro.
Don't do it in front of my kids. Please don't do it in front of my kids
and old lady'. "He said I'll give you my bank card."
Burch is then believed to have thrown his trousers at the gunmen, who rummaged through the pockets looking for his wallet. When they failed to find it, they reportedly shot and killed him before fleeing. Hendricks fled and raised the alarm, she told the station.
Burch scooped the $434,272 (£305,000) jackpot after buying the winning ticket from a petrol station on November 29. His family said he used the money to buy Christmas presents for those in need.
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Over the weeks now Nigerians are being saddled with the news about the police refusing to leave the premises of a serving Senator, Dino Melaye, but some Nigerians online expect that this over-zealousness at getting the Senator could possibly be used in securing lives and properties of Nigerians on a daily basis. What are his friends saying about this? why is there silence over this issue? Whose toes has the serving senator stepped on? According to Senator Ben Bruce he alleged that; officers of the Nigeria Police are making attempt to kill Dino Melaye with tear gas in his house. lawmaker representing Bayelsa East in the upper chamber of the National Assembly also wrote that the Police is aware of an ailment (Asthma) Senator Dino Melaye suffers from and so intend to either snuff him out or kill him right there in his resident. Ben Murray-Bruce ✔ @benmurraybruce #HappeningRightNow The @PoliceNG are currently at @dino_melaye ’s residence and are threatening to fire tire gas into the bu...
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