FREEHOLD — A Brooklyn man will spend three decades behind bars for a 2024 shooting that left an Eatontown resident dead in a Hazlet parking lot, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago said.
Gaetano S. Scannavino, 26, was sentenced in Monmouth County Superior Court to 30 years in state prison under New Jersey’s No Early Release Act, requiring him to serve at least 85 percent of the term before becoming eligible for parole.
Scannavino previously admitted guilt to first-degree aggravated manslaughter on December 16, 2025.
The case stems from a September 14, 2024, incident in which Hazlet police were dispatched around 7:18 a.m. to the parking area of 270 Route 36 for a report of an unconscious person. Officers arriving at the scene found a man lying near a dumpster suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities later identified the victim as Anthony Hill, 42, of Eatontown.
A joint investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Hazlet Police Department led to Scannavino being named as the suspect. He was taken into custody five days later in Brooklyn by officers from the 61st and 62nd Precincts of the New York City Police Department.
The prosecution was handled by Assistant Prosecutors Joseph Cummings, director of the prosecutor’s office Narcotics and Criminal Enterprise Investigation Section, and Christopher Ammon of the trial division. Scannavino was represented by Meghan J. Decker of Long Branch.
