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The torture lasted six hours, and the killer’s own surveillance cameras captured every minute.
The killer sat and watched his childhood friend struggle to breathe with a plastic bag tied over his head, before stabbing him 10 times in the neck.
It was a night out with an old friend that turned into a six-hour torture session — and finally ended in murder.
An East Quogue man who spent six horrific hours torturing and slowly killing his longtime friend (all of it captured on his own home surveillance cameras) was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jeremy Allen, 44, was convicted in January of first-degree and tampering with physical evidence in the death of 43-year-old Christopher Hahn of Hampton Bays.
Evidence presented at Allen’s trial indicated he showed no mercy to Hahn, a man he had known since high school. Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei judge showed him none in return, making Allen the first Suffolk defendant to get a full life sentence in nearly 10 years.
“Christopher Hahn deserved better than to have his life violently taken by someone he once trusted,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said, following the sentencing. “For torture such as occurred here, a life sentence without parole is the only appropriate sentence.”
The two men spent the evening of Sept. 27, 2024, drinking and hanging out together at a bar before heading back to Allen’s East Quogue home. What happened next was the stuff of a waking nightmare.
Minutes after midnight, Allen launched a savage 18-minute beating of Hahn. The sounds of the assault were picked up by the exterior surveillance cameras in place at Allen’s house. Allen then dragged the bruised, semi-conscious victim onto the rear deck and left him there, beaten and unable to stand.
But Allen wasn’t done, as prosecutors detailed during Allen’s murder trial in January.
He returned to the deck and continued beating Hahn. This time he used a baseball bat, repeatedly striking him in the head and body.
Knowing full well the victim was alive and suffering, Tierney said, Allen then went inside, retrieved a plastic bag, and placed it over Hahn’s head, securing it with a knot.
Then he pulled up a lawn chair and watched.
For about eight minutes, Allen sat just feet away as his former friend struggled to breathe, prosecutors said. Then he went back inside, grabbed a large knife, and returned to stab Hahn in the neck — 10 times, slowly.
“He stood over the victim and watched as he took his last breaths, six hours after the torture began,” Tierney said.
In a brazen attempt to cover his tracks, Allen threw a blanket over the body and began scrubbing blood from the inside of his home and the deck, according to court testimony.
But he needed help.
“When the handyman arrived, he observed blood throughout the home and saw the victim’s body covered by the blanket on the back deck,” Tierney said in a statement. “Allen told the handyman that he could not leave the home given what he had just observed. The handyman, after persuading Allen to allow him to leave the home, fled and called the police.”
Cops soon after arrested Allen at his home.
Top: Jeremy Allen (Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office) and Christopher Hahn (courtesy of GoFundMe).
