Store clerk wins big with Lucky Times 10

The winner's mother has been taking him back and forth to work.
By TIM YOVICH
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
NILES -- Bruce Dozier Jr. was being paid $6.10 an hour Feb. 19, working as a clerk at Fuel Plus.
Today the 21-year-old Dozier is still being paid $6.10 an hour clerking at the same West Park Avenue convenience store.
The only difference is that in the meantime he has won $250,000 playing the Ohio Lottery Commission's Holiday Lucky Times 10 scratch-off game.
"Everything else is basically the same as it was," the 2003 Liberty High School graduate said -- adding he's staying put at his job.
"I don't make much, but I like my job. I like the customers," Dozier said. His personality is casual.
Dozier usually buys some $5 scratch-off tickets before he starts his afternoon shift at 2 p.m., and takes them home after work to see if he's won anything.
Feb. 19 was no different from any other workday. He bought two tickets from the same game because he thinks there's a better chance of winning.
"The second one was a pretty good investment," he commented, noting he didn't win anything with the first ticket.
"I was in shock. I knew it was a winner. It was like a dream," he recalled after scratching off the winning ticket at 10:45 p.m.
"I started shaking and couldn't stop for about 45 minutes. I couldn't calm down," the Niles native recalled.
Where money will go
Dozier lives with his mother, Barb Pringle in Liberty, and his fiance & eacute;, Krystal Hunyady. "They were happy. They were just jumping up and down," he said.
Dozier and Hunyady had previously set Dec. 16 as the date they would get married. He was putting what money he could to the side to pay for the wedding.
"I'll be able to have a nice wedding," Dozier said.
Other than buying a car, he plans to buy a house in Niles so he'll be closer to work.
Right now his mother is taking him to work and picking him up. Although he says he mother doesn't want anything, he plans to surprise her with a gift.
Dozier doesn't have a car because he was in a crash about a year ago. His insurance hadn't been switched from his previous car to the one he was driving.
He has been paying $25 a week toward the $6,000 damage caused to the other motorist's vehicle. The $5,700 balance will also be paid off.
After taxes, Dozier will receive $187,000 in about two weeks from the lottery commission.
His regular customers who are accountants and attorneys and know of his good fortune have been leaving their business cards with him.
Dozier has been talking with a few people about how to invest his money. "I don't know what I'm going to do," he said, other than putting it in the bank.
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