(NBC 4) – A U.S.-based Guyanese working as a security guard at the Rockefeller Center in New York, who bought a scratch-off lottery ticket on his lunch break, has won the US$3 million jackpot.

According to an NBC news report, lottery officials said Rafik Sulaiman, a 58-year-old father of three and immigrant from Guyana, bought the US$10 ticket from a vending machine at a Pronto Pizza on 48th Street in Manhattan, New York.

He is one of eight winners who were presented with prizes by New York Lottery representatives on Thursday.

Sulaiman said he bought the only ticket in the vending machine and took it back to work, where he scratched it off to find he had won the jackpot.

“I went back to the guy to verify,” NBC quoted him as saying.

Sulaiman, who lives in Astoria, finished his work day and went home as usual.

He said he has not decided what he will do with his winnings, a lump sum payment of more than US$1.5 million. He isn’t quitting his job, though.

“I’m just going to hang low,” he said.