Very unfortunate news coming from Macon, Georgia today. During a home invasion, Craigory Burch Jr., was shot and killed early Thursday morning.
We reported on Craigory Burch back in November, Burch was a 20 year old Fantasy 5 winner who won $434,272 after hitting the lotto. He was a forklift driver who wanted to use portions of his winnings to purchase Christmas gifts for people in need, a good guy.
Burch’s girlfriend Jasmine Hendricks was in the house during the shooting, she recalls the incident:
“A shotgun blast blew open the door and three masked, armed men ran in,” she said.
“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. Please don’t do that bro. Please don’t. He said I’ll give you my bank card,” Hendricks recalled. That’s when Burch threw his pants to the robbers, who looked for but couldn’t find his wallet. Then they shot and killed him before running away.
Burch’s mother Leslie Collins relayed an emotional message to WALB about the shooting:
“I want them to know what they took from me. They took a part of my life away from me. My child that I carried and raised for 20 years,” she said.
This brings more light to a bill state representative Josh McKoon presented last week during the $1.5 billion lottery frenzy. Right now, by law Georgia makes all lottery winners name public, the bill states that you’d have to pay 25% of earnings back to the state to keep your name anonymous to prevent incidents like this happening. Read more about the bill here..
Currently, no arrests have been made.
Burch’s mother Leslie Collins talking about the shooting with WALB
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To all lottery players… to avoid an attack on your life from some trifling nut case, if you win, don’t claim the winnings in your name. Simply create an estate fund with your attorney, name it something unique, and then take your legal papers to the lottery office with your attorney and claim your money through an estate fund. NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW ITS YOU!!! Don’t be so eager to claim the money. Get your affairs in order and work safer and smarter, not harder.
Extortion for privacy should be a crime. Period. And unless one of the perps gets a conscience and spills on his pathetic partners, no arrest will be made.
That’s no law that’s pure blackmail
That’s law that’s pure blackmail.
Fuck the government. My nigga wouldnt have been shot if it wasn’t for ya’lls peepin name giving ass
YOU SHOULDNT HAVE TO GIVE YOUR NAME IF YOU DON’T WANT TO AND NOT COST YOU A DIME. DAMN GOVERNMENT WANTS THEIR HANDS IN EVERYTHING.
Especially when it’s not the law in some of our neighboring states that share and offer the lottery in their states. They are worse than Shark Tank.
First of all, Josh McKoon (and any co-supporters of his bill) should be jailed for attempting to extort money to the government for a lottery winner to keep his/her name private. How is it legal to force someone to make their name public information and invite just this sort of attack ? That money wasn’t going to let him retire and live in a safe neighborhood – but the government put his life in jeopardy.
Second – find the SOB’s who murdered this man and execute them on the spot. What they did to this family is unforgivable and should not be tolerated.
AMEN!!! I’ve been saying the same thing for several years! Making these ppl release their name is a death sentence!