A Long Island goon who stabbed, suffocated and beat his longtime pal to death with a baseball bat after a night of binge drinking in the Hamptons was hit with a life sentence, prosecutors said.
Jeremy Allen, 44, who was convicted of first-degree murder last month in the cruel hours-long slaying of 43-year-old Christopher Hahn in 2024, is now headed to state prison without the possibility of parole, Suffolk County prosecutors said.
“Christopher Hahn deserved better than to have his life violently taken by someone he once trusted,” Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney said in a statement. “For torture such as occurred here, a life sentence without parole is the only appropriate sentence.”
Allen and Hahn, who had been friends since high school, met up at a local bar on Sept. 27, 2024, to booze it up for hours, before they both went to Allen’s home in East Quoque to continue drinking.
Shortly after midnight, Allen suddenly turned on his friend, beating him into semi-consciousness.
Hahn was left on a rear deck — but the vicious assault was only beginning, prosecutors said.
Allen returned with a bat and pounded the victim repeatedly in the head and body, then grabbed a plastic bag and tied it over Hahn’s head, watching him struggle for life from a nearby lawn chair.
Prosecutors said the convicted killer then grabbed a knife from his home and “slowly stabbed the victim in the neck 10 times,” watching as Hahn took his last breaths, six hours after the vicious attack began.
Allen tried to clean up the bloody scene, and even called the handyman to help him get rid of the evidence — only to have the shocked handyman slip away to call the cops.
Police nabbed Allen not long after, and he was charged with murder for the senseless attack.
Authorities have not disclosed what may have sent Allen into a deadly rage.
On Jan. 21, a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence, with the murder charge carrying a maximum sentence of life without parole under state law — the sentence handed down by Supreme Court Justice e Timothy Mazzei on Thursday.