{"id":4584,"date":"2025-10-16T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/4584\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:17:14","slug":"nyc-machete-maniac-who-sliced-workers-fingers-off-was-on-supervised-release-when-he-killed-woman-in-crash-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/4584\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC machete maniac who sliced worker’s fingers off was on supervised release when he killed woman in crash: records"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s a menace to society. <\/p>\n

Timothy Bohler has been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, with a lengthy rap sheet that includes the death of a cancer survivor in Queens while on release from state prison and a rape rap in the Bronx just six months after he got out, records reviewed by The Post show.<\/p>\n

At 31, Bohler has 45 busts in all on his rap sheet \u2014 20 of them now sealed \u2014 but somehow slipped through the fingers of the criminal justice system for most of his life. <\/p>\n

His criminal record dates to when he was a troublesome 16-year-old from the Bronx, and most recently includes claims that he sliced off an MTA worker\u2019s<\/a> fingers with a machete over a dog dispute.<\/p>\n

Timothy Bohler, 31, has 45 arrests on his rap sheet, nearly half of them sealed, and is now facing homicide charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no longer any mechanism in law to keep people like this in prison,\u201d one law enforcement source said this week. \u201cWith all this bail reform we\u2019re releasing violent people with zero supervision or any rehabilitation. Just giving them another chance to do it all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because many of his cases were sealed, it is unclear why Bohler remained free for years.<\/p>\n

His latest case came while he was already locked up at Rikers Island on the machete attack, when he was charged on Oct. 9 with hitting and killing<\/a> pedestrian Lelawattie Narine, a cancer survivor who was out for a walk in Queens on March 22, 2024, when she was struck and killed.<\/p>\n

Narine\u2019s death came less than two years after Bohler was first paroled from state prison.<\/p>\n

Timothy Bohler, 31, is charged with attempted murder for allegedly slicing off Tayquon Young\u2019s fingers in January. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

Tayquon Young, an MTA worker, has not been the same since his fingers were sliced off in January, his mother said. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

The case that sent him upstate was a chilling Nov. 10, 2016, incident at a Bronx bodega, during which he got into a dispute with a store clerk who refused to give him beer on credit, court records show.<\/p>\n

According to a criminal complaint, Bohler threw a bottle of ice tea at the victim and struck him in the head before storming out \u2014 but returned armed with a handgun, pointed it at the clerk and yelled, \u201cHow do you feel now? I\u2019m the man. Who\u2019s the man now?\u201d <\/p>\n

Bohler pulled the trigger, but the gun misfired and the bullet fell to the ground, the complaint said.<\/p>\n

Cops picked him up and charged him with attempted murder, but he later pleaded the case down to assault and weapons possession, and got up to six years in prison, records show.<\/p>\n

He reported to the Ulster Correctional Facility on April 16, 2018, court records show \u2014 but was granted a conditional release on Dec. 22, 2022, state correction records show.<\/p>\n

Timothy Bohler\u2019s criminal career dates to the time he was a troublesome Bronx teenager, and now includes 45 busts. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

He was free more than a year and a half when he violated conditions of his release and was shipped back upstate on June 25, 2024, staying locked up for just a week before he was released again.<\/p>\n

State corrections officials said Bohler\u2019s return to prison was for a violation of his release, not a new conviction, so he had to be cut loose at the end of his conditional release date.<\/p>\n

What wasn\u2019t known then was that, while he was on release, Bohler was allegedly involved in the Queens hit-and-run that left Narine mortally injured \u2014 a case he wouldn\u2019t be linked to until this month.<\/p>\n

Regardless, it would only take just a few months before he was wreaking havoc again.<\/p>\n

Bohler was accused of assault in an alleged domestic violence incident in July 2024, but dodged jail when the charges were thrown out, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

In October, he was picked up again on a slew of charges in an apartment near Crotona Park in the Bronx. <\/p>\n

Bronx prosecutors won\u2019t divulge details of the incident because the case is sealed by law, but law enforcement sources said Bohler allegedly held a woman against her will, threatened to \u201cbeat the s\u2013t out\u201d of her and raped her while she was in the shower.<\/p>\n

Cancer survivor Lelawattie Narine was out for a walk in Queens in March 2024 when she was struck by a motorcycle. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

It is unclear why the arrest did not send Bohler back to prison because the case was sealed.<\/p>\n

However, Bohler ran afoul of the law again in January, when he was walking his dog and got into a spat with another man walking his pooch \u2014 allegedly pulling out a machete and slicing off four fingers.<\/p>\n

The shocking crime destroyed<\/a> victim Tayquon Young\u2019s will to live, his mother said. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a strong person but it was\u00a0just\u00a0too much,\u201d Kimtreese Young said of his maimed son, a doting father of two. \u201cWhen this person attacked him with the machete it took a really hard toll.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bohler was still in jail on the attack on Young when prosecutors charged him in Narine\u2019s death. The victim had been out for a walk at the intersection of of 114th Street and Liberty Avenue when she was struck by a 2023 Jiajue motorcycle allegedly driven by Bohler, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

The driver fled the scene and Narine died at Jamaica Hospital less than three weeks later. <\/p>\n

The deli on Southern Boulevard where Timothy Bohler allegedly chopped off Tayquon Young\u2019s fingers.<\/p>\n

Her son, Darshan Narine, told The Post his mom had just finished chemotherapy and had been declared cancer free \u2014 and was out for a walk that her doctor had prescribed. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy they got him,\u201d Darshan Narine said. \u201cHe just left my mom. It wasn\u2019t right. He could\u2019ve just called 911. He could have tried to help her \u2026 He just ran.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know he was arrested 45 times,\u201d he said. \u201cHow does he keep getting out of jail?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bohler\u2019s lawyer on the Queens case declined to comment Tuesday, and his lawyer on the machete slashing case did not respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Desheania Andrews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s a menace to society. Timothy Bohler has been in and out of jail since he was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[357,128,473,57,238,9,24,63,122,361,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-4584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-assaults","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-hit-and-run","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-murders","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-slashings","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news","21":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}