A 46‐year‐old owner of a New Jersey garbage collecting company was shot to death in a midtown Manhattan parking garage yesterday in what the police called the apparent work of a professional gunman.

About two hours earlier, a 78‐year‐old woman was shot and killed in the doorway of her Valley Cottage, N. Y., home by a gunman in a passing car who the police said might have been seeking her son‐in‐law, an independent carting contractor in Rockland County.

It was unclear yesterday’ whether the two murders were related, though both had the earmarks of gangland slayings. The victim in midtown, Alfred DeNardi of 122 Smoke Rise Drive, Warren Township, was in the 20th Century Parking Garage at 320 East 48th Street, between First and Second Avenues, with a 38‐yearold woman companion at 1:30 A.M., waiting for an attendant to deliver his 1976 Cadillac, when he was shot four times.

“It looks like a hit, a rubout,” said Detective John Stewart of the Third Homicide Zone. “It looks like they came to put him away.”
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People in buildings near the garage told the police that shortly after hearing the shots they saw a man hop into the passenger side of a waiting car, which then sped off.

The police said they had been unable to obtain a full description of the car or either of the two persons in it. They said they believed that the shooting had been done with a 38‐caliber weapon.

The police said that Mr. DeNardi was carrying $150 in cash, but that there was no attempt at robbery.

Speaking of the gunman, Detective Stewart said: “The gunman races in from the street and pumps four shots'into DeNardi. Then he just turns and flees. That's all he wanted. There was no attempt at robbery.”

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The police said Mr. DeNardi's companion, who they described as “a recent acquaintance,” was unhurt. They said that they were witholding her identity during the early stages of the investigation.
Detective Stewart said it wasnot clear whether the “hit” had been carried out by members of organized crime of an independent team.

In the earlier slaying, Caroline Nadel was shot in the head about 11:30 P.M. Wednesday as she stepped onto the front porch of her Valley Cottage home. The bullet was fired from a car that sped away.

Her son‐in‐law, Natale Schet‐’ tino, who has been trying in recent months to establish an independent carting company in Rockland County, told the police that he had received threatening phone calls at home earlier Wednesday evening.

On March 2, three of Mr. Schettino's five garbage trucks were burned in two separate nighttime incidents that the police called the apparent work of an arsonist.