Handyman’s horrifying discovery after being called to quaint Hamptons home to clean up a mess following boozy party
A Long Island handyman made a gruesome discovery after he was called to a Hamptons home to clean up a mess after a night of heavy drinking.
The worker arrived at the East Quogue home 43 year old jeremy allen saturday morning and found a beaten and bloodied body under a tarpaulin on the back patio, Newsday reports.
The homeowner then cryptically told the handyman, “Now you can’t leave. Now you need to help clean up the house,” Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Elena Tomaro said Sunday.
The unnamed handyman responded by claiming he needed more supplies to complete the job, but instead called Southampton Town police, who arrived on the scene shortly before 10am.
Police pronounced Christopher Hahn, 43, dead at the scene. Allen was arrested for the man’s murder about an hour after the body was found.
Jeremy Allen, 43, was arrested Saturday for allegedly beating his friend to death
Prosecutors say Allen called a handyman to help clean out his East Quogue home when the handyman found Christopher Hahn’s beaten and bloodied body under a tarp on the patio.
Authorities said Allen and Hahn were drinking together at a bar Friday evening after initially planning to attend a meeting for people struggling with addiction, Newsday reported.
At some point during the night, Allen and Hahn became involved in a heated dispute — which ended with Allen beating the victim for hours beginning at midnight, prosecutors say.
He then allegedly dragged Hahn’s “defenseless and helpless body” to the patio, where Allen continued to beat the victim with a baseball bat.
The suspect later returned with a “large knife” and fatally stabbed his friend “in the head and neck” in full view of the home’s surveillance camera, before calling the handyman.
Tomaro described the images on Sunday as “brutal and gruesome to watch.”
But attorney Colin Astarita said he believes his client may have a defense claim.
“He was in his own home,” he argued, saying he believes Allen and Hahn were just old acquaintances who had recently reconnected.
He also said Hahn came to his client’s home Friday evening despite being told to stay away, claiming Hahn “injected himself into Allen’s life.”
Allen is accused of beating his friend for hours inside the home before stabbing Hahn in the head and neck
The suspect has been charged and convicted of driving under the influence several times since 2007, and was most recently arrested for criminal purchase of a gun in May – when he attempted to purchase a shotgun but was unable to do so due to his prior criminal convictions. .
‘That [effort] was thwarted by Dick’s Sporting Goods employees,” Tomaro said.
In addition, Allen has an ongoing rape case in Southampton involving a child under the age of 15, and remains on probation for a 2022 drunk driving conviction in Ulster County.
Prosecutors are now expected to present the murder case against him to a grand jury on Wednesday, and Allen is due back in court on Friday – although his lawyers say his appearance will likely be waived pending grand jury indictment.