NYC machete attack suspect charged in fatal hit-and-run

A career criminal charged with chopping off a stranger’s fingers in a vicious machete attack in the Bronx has racked up a staggering 45 busts — and is now charged in a fatal hit-and-run that killed a cancer survivor last year, The Post has learned.

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 — leaving the victim to die on a Queens street, police said.

“I’m really happy they got him,” Narine’s son, Darshan Narine, told The Post Sunday. “He just left my mom. It wasn’t right. He could’ve just called 911. He could have tried to help her … He just ran.

“I didn’t know he was arrested 45 times,” he said. “How does he keep getting out of jail?”

Bohler was hit with the new charges while already locked up on Rikers Island in the grisly Jan. 24 machete attack on MTA worker Tayquon Young that senselessly maimed the 34-year-old dad in a Bronx bodega.

The brute even threatened to decapitate Young’s dog, sources said.

Bohler’s 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.

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. Circumstances of his bail were not clear Sunday. The Bronx District Attorney’s Office didn’t immediately return a message.

Sources added that Bohler has remained a menace while cooling his heels at Rikers following the machete attack — he was charged with robbery after allegedly swiping pepper spray from a female corrections officer on Feb. 10 and blasting her with it.

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.

“Her doctors told her to exercise as much as possible. I told her going for walks would be the best. So she used to try to do a mile a day,” her son Darshan, 35, said Sunday.

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.

The mom — who was wearing a wig at the time because her hair had not grown in yet — fell to the ground mortally injured, while Bohler ran off on foot, police said.

Narine was taken to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition and died less than three weeks later.

“When she went on these walks, she didn’t take a wallet or a purse, so they had her as a Jane Doe,” Darshan said of his mom’s tentative ID in the hospital. “But when I saw the wig in the bag, you know the bag of her property, I knew it was her.”

Bohler is now facing charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, operating without a license and others.

He is still being held on assault and menacing charges in the attack on Tayquon Young, who had four fingers sliced off.

“Oh, thank God, they got him,” Young’s mother, Kimtreese Young, told The Post Sunday after hearing of Bohler’s new charges and 45 priors.

“I just hope they keep him this time because they’re letting them out over and over. I pray this time it sticks. Someone died,” she added. “Maybe this gives my son strength to go get some help. When he couldn’t work for the city anymore, he just gave up. It was like a domino effect.”

Tayquon was walking his dog in Crotona when the pooch got into it with Bohler’s pup — with Bohler flying off the handle and pulling out a machete, police said.

He whacked off four of Tayquon’s fingers in the attack that cost the dad of two girls his job as an MTA bus cleaner.

“He was a strong person but it was just too much,” Kimtreese said. “When this person attacked him with the machete it it took a really hard toll.”