Widow and daughter will split estate of poisoned $1 million lottery winner

Illinois Lottery via ReutersChicago Urooj Khan is represented holding their winning lottery ticket of $1 million in this photo without a date of delivery of the Illinois lottery. Khan died of cyanide poisoning on July 20, 2012, and his death is now a homicide investigation.The estate of a man from Chicago who was poisoned at a rate of death once he won $1 million in a lottery ticket scratch will be divided between his widow and his daughter from a previous marriage, to end a fight in court.The settlement was confirmed Thursday by a lawyer for the widow. The widow and the daughter agreed not sue each other for culpable homicide unless a criminal investigation brings new information.A coroner ruled in March that the winner of the lottery, Urooj Khan, was killed by poisoning with cyanide. The coroner said that he could not determine how administered the cyanide.Complete coverage of NBC ChicagoKhan died in July 2012, just before I was going to cash a check from the Illinois Lottery $424.000 - earnings after taxes and after Khan chose a one-time payment. He did not leave a will.His death was ruled natural at first, but a brother raised suspicions, and authorities proved fluids taken from the body until Khan was buried. These fluids showed poisoning.In January, the authorities unearthed the body to make a complete autopsy in the hope of finding more evidence, but the exhumation yielded significant clues. The death is classified as a homicide, but researchers have been reserved.Under the agreement, the widow, Shabana Ansari, will receive one-third of the money from the lottery and will maintain three cleaning stores dry belonged to him with Khan. The Chicago Tribune reported that the shops are worth approximately $1 million.The daughter, Jasmeen, will receive the rest of the money from the lottery, as well as five condominiums owned by Khan. Together are valued at about $250,000, the Tribune reported.Harun Husain, a lawyer for the widow, told NBC News that he did not expect his client and daughter reconcile."Desire that actually might", he said. "There has been a death, and has been the death in unusual circumstances. Both sides are pointing to the other. It is very difficult to reconcile".A lawyer's daughter did not immediately return a call for comment.Khan, an Indian immigrant, came to Chicago in the Decade of 1980 and opened his first dry cleaning store in 2004. He bought the ticket lottery at a 7 - Eleven in Chicago, had damaged him and said later that he was so vertiginous that found that it gave to the Secretary $100.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Related:Poisoning by cyanide killed the $1 million lottery winner, confirmed authoritieswinner of the Lottery's $1 million fatally poisoned by cyanideLottery winner killed by cyanide was immigrant, family manThis story was originally posted on Thu 12 December 2013 1:50 PM EST