A hardworking Indian immigrant who hit the lottery for a $1 million last summer was apparently lethally poisoned with cyanide only a single day after officials cut the check for his winnings.
Urooj Khan, 46, paid $60 for two lottery tickets at a Chicago 7-11 in June, and, upon scratching the second one, reportedly leaped in the air and repeatedly shouted, 'I hit a million!'
Days later, with his wife and daughter at his side at the same convenience store in West Rogers Park in which he bought the winning ticket, Khan gleefully - and fatefully - accepted an over sized, mock check from lottery officials, The Chicago Tribune reports.
A check for the $425,000 in prize money, however, wasn't actually cut until July 19. The next day, or July 20, Khan reportedly eturned to his home from work in Chicago's Far North Side, ate dinner and adjourned to bed shortly thereafter.
But the quiescence of Khan's day - and life - was brutally interrupted a short time later when the suddenly wealthy entrepreneur woke up screaming in excruciating pain from his bed.
His frantic widow, Shabana Ansari, and daughter rushed to his side. The stricken Khan was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where doctors pronounced him dead, according to The Tribune.
Meanwhile, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, which conducted an autopsy, found no sign of foul play. And so he was laid to rest Rosehill Cemetery, The Tribune reports.
But within a week of Khan's death an apparently suspicious and unidentified relative asked the M.E. to look more closely into Khan's death, Medical Examiner Stephen J. Cina told the paper.
The ME subsequently conducted a comprehensive toxicology examination of Khan's corpse, and startlingly determined the Indian immigrant had died from a lethal amount of the poison cyanide.
The Chicago Police Department is now treating Khan's death as a homicide, and is even considering exhuming his body to learn exactly what happened to the unfortunate immigrant.
Khan emigrated to the U.S. during the 1980s, and through hard work and discipline, reportedly saved sufficiently to open first one - and eventually three Chicago dry cleaning shops.
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