A cash-strapped ex-NYPD cop who’d just bought his wife a pricey Louis Vuitton handbag for Christmas flipped under the financial stress of the holidays and killed her, police sources said yesterday.
“I just shot my wife,” muscle-bound Clarence Cash, 49, calmly told officers hours after allegedly pumping 10 bullets into his pretty wife, Tracey Young, 42 — a top tax investigator who specialized in busting tobacco smugglers — in their posh Queens condo.
“I just shot my wife,” muscle-bound Clarence Cash, 49, calmly told officers hours after allegedly pumping 10 bullets into his pretty wife, Tracey Young, 42 — a top tax investigator who specialized in busting tobacco smugglers — in their posh Queens condo.
After Cash punched Young in their fight over dough, she threatened to leave him — sending him further over the edge, law-enforcement sources said.
Neighbors admitted that they had heard Young and Cash arguing, then loud bangs — but none ever called cops, even though at least one of them suspected gunfire.
After allegedly killing Young at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Cash — a body-building, part-time guard at the federal courthouse on Pearl Street — fled the couple’s apartment at 143-41 84th Drive in Briarwood.
He told cops he wandered the city for more than seven hours trying to work up the guts to commit suicide.
Instead, Cash turned himself in at the Midtown South Precinct at about 6 a.m. yesterday, handing over two handguns — his Glock and her registered Sig Sauer, the sources said.
“I’m a retired cop,” he said before describing his heinous crime and sniveling, “I tried to kill myself, but I couldn’t do it.”
One law-enforcement source said Cash “appeared calm, gentlemanly” when he showed up.
“He was remorseful — just came in and said he wanted to speak with a detective,” the source said.
Cash was charged with first-degree murder. He was remanded without bail, and his lawyer asked that he be placed in protective custody at Rikers.
Neighbors admitted that they had heard Young and Cash arguing, then loud bangs — but none ever called cops, even though at least one of them suspected gunfire.
After allegedly killing Young at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Cash — a body-building, part-time guard at the federal courthouse on Pearl Street — fled the couple’s apartment at 143-41 84th Drive in Briarwood.
He told cops he wandered the city for more than seven hours trying to work up the guts to commit suicide.
Instead, Cash turned himself in at the Midtown South Precinct at about 6 a.m. yesterday, handing over two handguns — his Glock and her registered Sig Sauer, the sources said.
“I’m a retired cop,” he said before describing his heinous crime and sniveling, “I tried to kill myself, but I couldn’t do it.”
One law-enforcement source said Cash “appeared calm, gentlemanly” when he showed up.
“He was remorseful — just came in and said he wanted to speak with a detective,” the source said.
Cash was charged with first-degree murder. He was remanded without bail, and his lawyer asked that he be placed in protective custody at Rikers.
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