Powerball winner: Pedro Quezada shocked to find his ticket was worth $338million

Pedro Quezada was shocked when he went to his local liquor store to collect what he assumed would be meager winnings.

Instead the 44-year-old got the surprise of his life when he found out that he won the $338million jackpot.

'I’m very happy,' he said in his native Spanish when he leaed the news at Eagle Liquors.

Mr Quezada said that the first thing on his agenda wold be to take care of his family.

Though he did not reveal to local news site North Jersey whether or not he had won before, he did say that he stopped in the shop daily to get a new lottery ticket and some alcohol.

Store owner Sunil Sethi, who will receive $10,000 as the seller of the winning ticket, said he's proud to have sold it.

He said he was contacted by lottery officials this moing with the news.

'Very exciting - unbelievable,' Sethi, who has owned the store for eight years, told the New Jersey Star-Ledger.

Proud: Store employee Pravin Mankodia stands outside Eagles Liquors in Passaic, N.J., where he sold the winning $338 million Powerball ticket that was claimed by a New Jersey resident

Winning location: The owner of the store will win $10,000 for selling the winning ticket

'He (or she) don't have to work no more. If he is living in Passaic, he's definitely moving out.'

He said that his store must be one of the luckiest in the area as last year they sold a ticket worth $156,000, he said.

'It feels awesome, we feel so lucky.'

The prize - $338.3million - is the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history, although officials do not know whether it was bought by an individual or a group.

Lottery officials have not yet been contacted by a winner, Carol Hedinger, the executive director at the New Jersey Lottery said on Monday.

Announcement: Carol Hedinger from the New Jersey lottery has revealed there is just one winning ticket