Anthony Hill, 42, was killed in the early morning hours of September 14, 2024, in the parking lot of the Holly Hill Motel in Hazlet. A longtime Yellow Car Company taxi driver from Eatontown and a husband and father, Hill was found with multiple gunshot wounds near a dumpster after police responded to an emergency call around 7:18 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Surveillance footage shows Hill’s taxi arriving at the motel at about 5:12 a.m.; a puff of smoke, believed to be from gunfire, is visible, and the taxi then rolled slowly into a dumpster. Court documents say Hill was pulled from the vehicle after being shot and then run over by the assailant who took the driver’s seat. A woman who fled the scene was later located and told authorities she had been with the suspect and heard three shots as they pulled into the motel.

Within days police identified and arrested 25-year-old Gaetano S. Scannavino of Brooklyn on September 19, 2024. Authorities say Scannavino and a female companion had called the taxi to the motel; Hill’s taxi was later found in Brooklyn with bullet holes and signs of an attempted fire. Scannavino has been charged with first-degree murder, carjacking, and two weapons offenses and is awaiting extradition to New Jersey.

Did anyone in the Red Bank or Hazlet areas see Hill’s taxi or the motel parking lot that morning?