EAST QUOGUE MAN INDICTED FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER

(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Jeremy Allen, 43, of East Quogue, was indicted for Murder in the First Degree, and other related charges, for the alleged brutal torture and murder of Christopher Hahn, 43.

“The alleged actions of this defendant were vicious, brutal, and senseless,” said District Attorney Tierney. “We will do everything in our power to seek justice for Christopher Hahn.”

According to the investigation, on September 27, 2024, Allen and Hahn spent the evening at a bar before heading back to the defendant’s East Quogue home on Oakville Avenue. The two had been friends since high school. A few minutes after midnight, Allen’s exterior surveillance video allegedly captured the sounds of a brutal beating being inflicted on Hahn by the defendant that lasted approximately 18 minutes. A few minutes after the alleged beating, Allen’s rear exterior surveillance video allegedly captured the defendant dragging the badly bruised and semi-conscious Hahn onto his rear deck. Hahn was allegedly left on the back deck brutally injured and unable to stand. Sometime later, Allen is allegedly seen returning to Hahn, and then repeatedly striking him about the head and body with a baseball bat. Allen, allegedly then aware that Hahn was alive and in distress, is allegedly captured on video leaving and then returning with a plastic bag, then placing the bag over the victim’s head and securing it with a loose knot. Allen was then allegedly captured on surveillance sitting on a lawn chair a few feet from the victim watching him struggle to breath for approximately eight minutes.

The defendant then allegedly retrieved a large knife from his home and slowly stabbed Hahn in the neck 10 times and allegedly stood over Hahn and watched as he took his last breaths, six hours after the alleged torture began. Afterwards, Allen allegedly contacted his handyman to clean his house that morning. When the handyman arrived, he allegedly observed blood throughout the house and Hahn’s body covered with a blanket, feet exposed, on the back deck. Allen allegedly told the handyman that he could not leave the home given what he had just observed. The handyman, after persuading the defendant to allow him to leave the home, fled and called the police. Allen was apprehended at his home shortly thereafter.

On October 10, 2024, Allen was arraigned on the indictment before Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei for Murder in the First Degree, a Class A violent felony, Murder in the Second Degree, a Class A violent felony, and Tampering with Physical Evidence, a Class E felony.

Justice Mazzei ordered Allen remanded during the pendency of the case. Allen is due back in court on November 14, 2024, and faces life in prison if convicted on the top count. He is being represented by Colin Astarita, Esq.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Elena Tomaro of the Homicide Bureau, and the investigation was conducted by Suffolk County Police Department Detective Michael Ronca of the Homicide Squad.

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