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Funeral services held Friday for Scott Crandall

BY CAROL POLSKY | carol.polsky@newsday.com

May 9, 2008

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A funeral service will be held today for Scott Crandall, 19, of Bay Shore, who was killed Sunday night when he apparently lost control of his motorcycle on the Long Island Expressway service road in Ronkonkoma.

Crandall had just started a job as a forklift operator, but his ambition was to become a police officer, said his father, Scott Smith, 44, an officer with the New York Police Department's Brooklyn North Task Force. "He wanted to be a police officer like me," he said.

His son, he said, had already passed an NYPD entrance exam.

He had planned to return to classes at Suffolk Community College to get additional credits needed to join the force.

The 2006 Copiague High School graduate had worked at Target and at Public Storage in Farmingdale while taking a break from classes at the community college, said his uncle, Nathan Jackson.

He spent part of his childhood in Brooklyn with his mother, Tanya Crandall, and at age 12 moved to Bay Shore to live with his father and two of his sisters, Brianna and Skyla.

He also has a third sister, Cydnii.

Crandall loved sports and working out, enjoyed an eclectic range of music from old school rhythm and blues to rap and jazz, and especially loved cars and motorcycles.

He'd fix cars in the backyard with his father, and the two often rode motorcycles together. "Cars and bikes were his main thing," said his father.

The service will be 10 a.m. today at Joseph A. Slinger-Hasgill Funeral Services, 155 Sunrise Hwy., Amityville.

"He was just an affable, sweet, respectful and charming young man," said Jackson. "He was just one of the coolest guys."

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