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Killer son played dumb at parents’ funeral: prosecutors

A spoiled brat killed his Queens parents because they cut him off financially, prosecutors say — and he even pretended to mourn them at their funeral.

Shane Jaggarnauth, 26, goes on trial Monday for allegedly murdering his mom and dad, Rosie and Sugrim Jaggarnauth, in September 2011 as they slept in the Springfield Gardens home they shared with him and his older brother, Shawn.

Sugrim, 64, was shot once in the head. Rosie, 56, was riddled with bullets to the face and chest.

Neighbors described the pair as kind and quiet.

Two months before the execution-style murders, Rosie had removed Shane from a pair of joint bank accounts after unauthorized withdrawals totaling nearly $18,000 were traced back to him, prosecutors say.

Shane allegedly forged his mom’s signature on a check for $10,000 in one of the incidents.

“These bad acts go to the motivation of the defendant murdering his parents,” prosecutor Brad Leventhal said during a pretrial hearing in the first-degree murder case last week.

“He was cut off from his parents’ hard-earned money,” Leventhal said.

But Shane was not indicted on any forgery or grand-larceny charges, said his lawyer, Michael Siff, who will argue Monday that the incidents should not to be allowed into evidence.

“The prosecutor’s case is based on conflicting statements from my client about this diabolical plot to rob his parents, not about finances,” Siff said.

Shane Jaggarnauth (center) with his parents, Sugrim and Rosie, in an undated family photo.

Jaggarnauth — who wasn’t charged until seven months after the heinous crime — initially told detectives that his parents were killed during a robbery.

He said he returned home from walking the family’s pit bull, Princess, at 4 a.m. to find their bodies.

He later allegedly admitted to setting up the robbery but said he didn’t mean for them to die.

Jaggarnauth allegedly told detectives that he instructed an accomplice to steal car keys and $4,000 in cash from his parents’ room in their Grayson Street home.

Instead, he said, he heard three gunshots.

A dying Rosie made a call to 911. Her last words were: “We’ve been shot!”

Jaggarnauth claims he was even shot once in the shoulder as the gunman fled in the couple’s Toyota RAV4, according to court documents. The gunman told him he had to “make it look like a robbery,’’ the papers said.

Prosecutors don’t believe there ever was a robbery planned.