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.
Detailing the gruesome deed — which included blasting Young three times in the face — Cash added, “My wife, she didn’t deserve that.’’
Young’s own mother was murdered by a lover when the tragic tax cop was a child, a neighbor said.
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.
“He took her gun and went to Rockaway Beach to kill himself,” said Queens Assistant District Attorney Robert Hanophy Jr. at Cash’s arraignment last night.
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.”
What a ’ coward
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