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7 arrested in lottery winner shooting death

Seven people have been charged in the January shooting death of a Fitzgerald forklift driver who hit the lottery.

Craigory Burch Jr. has won nearly half a million dollars playing Ga. Lottery Fantasy 5.

Seven people have been charged in the January shooting death of a Fitzgerald forklift driver who hit the lottery.

According to WALB-TV in Albany, Six of the suspects are in Ben Hill County jail and another is locked up in Colquitt County. Two of the suspects are women - Rosalyn Swain of Fitzgerald and Keyona Dyous of Moultrie, according to the story posted Monday on walb.com.

The others are: 27-year old Earnest Holcomb of Fitzgerald, 17-year old Wayan Jordan of Fitzgerald, 19-year old Dabrentis Overstreet of Tifton, 28-year old Nathaniel Baker of Moultrie, and 21-year old Anjavell Johnson of Tifton.

All are charged with malice murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, possession of firearm during the commission of the crime, according to WALB-TV.

Craigory Burch Jr. matched all five numbers from the Nov. 29 Fantasy 5 drawing, winning the $434,272 jackpot. He purchased the winning ticket at H&R Food Mart at 1507 Watson Blvd. in Warner Robins.

He was shot to death Jan. 20 in a robbery in which investigators believe his lottery winnings were the target.

According to WALB, Burch was with his girlfriend when a shotgun blast blew open the door and three armed people wearing masked entered.

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