{"id":880,"date":"2025-10-14T07:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/880\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:02:14","slug":"nyc-machete-attack-suspect-charged-in-fatal-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/880\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC machete attack suspect charged in fatal hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A career criminal charged with chopping off a stranger\u2019s fingers in a vicious machete attack in the Bronx has racked up a staggering 45 busts \u2014 and is now charged in a fatal hit-and-run that killed a cancer survivor last year, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Bohler, 31, was just pinched in the death of Lelawattie Narine after allegedly slamming into the 52-year-old mom with his motorcycle and fleeing on March 22, 2024 \u2014 leaving the victim to die on a Queens street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really happy they got him,\u201d Narine\u2019s son, Darshan Narine, told The Post Sunday. \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<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know he was arrested 45 times,\u201d he said. \u201cHow does he keep getting out of jail?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bohler was hit with the new charges while already locked up on Rikers Island in the grisly Jan. 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/26\/us-news\/kin-of-nyc-machete-attack-victim-fears-goon-will-return-to-decapitate-his-dog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">machete attack on MTA worker Tayquon Young<\/a> that senselessly maimed the 34-year-old dad in a Bronx bodega.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Bohler, 31, was charged with assault for allegedly slicing off Tayquon Young\u2019s fingers with a machete. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Tayquon Young, 36, was bleeding after four of his fingers were chopped off in January, allegedly by Bohler. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The brute even threatened to decapitate Young\u2019s dog, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Bohler\u2019s slew of priors includes an alleged 2016 assault on deli workers in the Bronx who refused to let him walk off with a six-pack of beer on credit, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Kimtreese Young said the new charges against Bohler are welcome, but said her son\u2019s life was destroyed. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n<p>He was also nabbed in October 2024 on rape, weapons possession, assault and unlawful surveillance charges in the Bronx related to a domestic violence case, sources said. The circumstances of his bail were not clear Sunday. The Bronx District Attorney\u2019s Office didn\u2019t immediately return a message.<\/p>\n<p>Sources added that Bohler has remained a menace while cooling his heels at Rikers following the machete attack \u2014 he was charged with robbery after allegedly swiping pepper spray from a female corrections officer on Feb. 10 and blasting her with it.<\/p>\n<p>His rap sheet grew longer with his latest bust on Friday for allegedly fatally mowing down Narine, who had just wrapped up chemotherapy for breast cancer and was declared cancer-free when she was killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer doctors told her to exercise as much as possible. They told her going for walks would be the best. So she used to try to do a mile a day,\u201d her son Darshan, 35, said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Bohler\u2019s rap sheet includes a 2016 assault when Bronx deli workers refused to give him beer on credit.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Narine, who lived in Richmond Hill, was standing at the intersection of 114th Street and Liberty Avenue when she was struck by a 2023 Jiajue motorcycle allegedly driven by Bohler.<\/p>\n<p>The mom \u2014 who was wearing a wig at the time because her hair had not grown in yet \u2014 fell to the ground mortally injured, while Bohler ran off on foot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Narine was taken to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition and died less than three weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she went on these walks, she didn\u2019t take a wallet or a purse, so they had her as a Jane Doe,\u201d Darshan said of his mom\u2019s tentative ID in the hospital. \u201cBut when I saw the wig in the bag, you know the bag of her property, I knew it was her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bohler is now facing charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, operating without a license and others.<\/p>\n<p>He is still being held on assault and menacing charges in the attack on Tayquon Young, who had four fingers sliced off.<\/p>\n<p>The horrific January machete attack destroyed Tayquon Young\u2019s life, his mother told The Post. \u201cHe just gave up.\u201d Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, thank God, they got him,\u201d Young\u2019s mother, Kimtreese Young, told The Post Sunday after hearing of Bohler\u2019s new charges and 45 priors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just hope they keep him this time because they\u2019re letting them out over and over. I pray this time it sticks. Someone died,\u201d she added. \u201cMaybe this gives my son strength to go get some help. When he couldn\u2019t work for the city anymore, he just gave up. It was like a domino effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tayquon was walking his dog in Crotona when the pooch got into it with Bohler\u2019s pup \u2014 with Bohler flying off the handle and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/25\/us-news\/nyc-man-loses-four-fingers-after-being-attacked-by-machete-wielding-maniac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pulling out a machete<\/a>, police said. <\/p>\n<p>He whacked off four of Tayquon\u2019s fingers in the attack that cost the dad of two girls his job as an MTA bus cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a strong person but it was\u00a0just\u00a0too much,\u201d Kimtreese said. \u201cWhen this person attacked him with the machete it it took a really hard toll.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A career criminal charged with chopping off a stranger\u2019s fingers in a vicious machete attack in the Bronx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[357,128,473,57,9,24,63,122,1083,361,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-880","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-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-rikers-island","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\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}