10-27-2003, 10:19 AM
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2 slain over electric bill
2 slain over electric bill
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A Brooklyn man enraged over a high electric bill killed his roommate yesterday and then fatally slashed her 11-year-old daughter's throat as the helpless girl slept, police said.
"I did something bad," Albert Clarke, 41, said after he turned himself in to cops in Manhattan around 1:30 p.m., officials said.
"Apparently, the electrical bill was too high," a police source said.
The bloodshed erupted in the kitchen of the East New York apartment Clarke shared with the 43-year-old woman, cops said.
The two met while living in another building and decided to share the Logan St. flat to save money, police said.
"They told the landlord they were husband and wife," the police source said.
The man lived in a locked bedroom in the front of the apartment but shared a kitchen with the woman and her daughter.
Police said they would not identify the victims until relatives in Jamaica were notified.
Clarke, who was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, used a pipe wrapped in electrical tape to bludgeon the woman and then stabbed her several times in the neck, police said.
He then turned his wrath on the girl, who was sleeping in the bedroom that she shared with her mom, police said.
"He slit her throat from ear to ear," a second police source said.
Neighbors said the little girl jumped rope on the block and always offered a cheerful "Hello" to passersby.
"She was a nice child. She was polite and nice to talk to," said a 52-year-old woman who said she walked the girl and her own daughter to school at PS 345.
"I was crying when I heard this," added the woman, who did not want her name used.
Another neighbor in the three-story rowhouse said he was stunned to learn that Clarke, a chatty tenant who worked as a welder, was accused of the double murder.
"He doesn't seem like the type," said the man, who also did not want his named used. "He's very easygoing. He would spend time talking about current affairs."
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I hate bills too...But holy shit...
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