Balbir Atwal is the store owner of the 7-Eleven that sold one of the winning Powerball tickets. ^[1]

He is an Indian American immigrant who came to the United States from Punjab, India in 1981 and owns four 7-Eleven stores.

Atwal discovered his store sold the ticket from news reports; his customers found out from the news, Facebook and Instagram.

Not long after, a crush of people, and a cavalcade of hulking television news vans, showed up at his store, and many didn’t leave until close to 11 p.m, January 13, 2016.

He was quoted as saying: "I feel very good, some lucky customer came here and made me famous,” He has owned the store since 1994 and owns three others in Yorba Linda, Diamond Bar and La Habra.

The 57-year-old was awarded a company bonus of $1 million USD from PowerBall and 7-11 corporate.

He said he might use his share to help his employees and help young people go to college.