Two white Staten Island teens already facing hate crime charges for attacking a Muslim teen the night Barack Obama was elected have been linked to another bias attack that left another victim in a coma.

Ralph Nicolleti and Bryan Garaventa were arrested last month for beating 17-year-old Ali Kamara with a baseball bat as they shouted “Obama!” on Election Night, according to state prosecutors.

Investigators from the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force and the FBI have recently gathered evidence tying the pair to an assault several hours later that left a supermarket manager, Ronald Forte, in a coma for days, sources said. He was run down by a car, they said. The federal charges will pack more serious penalties than the two 17-year-olds are facing in state court, sources said.

“That someone will be arrested for this – it’s my Christmas present,” said Eileen Forte, the mother of the supermarket manager. “They left him for dead. It’s a nightmare. We believe love kept him alive.”

“Everyone’s lives were changed in a day because of a stupid crime,” she added.

Ronald Forte, 38, the father of five children, was wearing a hooded sweatshirt because it was raining on the morning of Nov. 5 when he was spotted by Nicolleti and Garaventa, according to sources.

The pair was allegedly trolling a predominately Black and Hispanic Staten Island neighborhood looking for victims, sources said.

They targeted Forte because with his head covered with the hood, they thought he was a Black man. Forte was run down and left in the gutter on Blackfort Ave. around 2:30 a.m.

He suffered massive head trauma and was in a coma for several weeks. He was released from the hospital late last week but may have suffered permanent brain damage and uses a walker to get around. He has no memory of what happened.

“I’m doing better with therapy,” Forte said in a halting voice.

Forte’s sister Donna Ramos is heartbroken that he forgets her name or how old he is and had to relearn how to swallow solid food. “They have no regard for human life,” Ramos said of the assailants.

A spokesman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Benton Campbell declined to comment.

“I pray that they put these people in jail,” said Kamara’s mother, Janeba Ladepo.

Nicolleti’s lawyer declined to comment, and Garaventa’s did not return a call.

From the New York Daily News