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Oct 28, 2007 11:28 pm US/Eastern

Queens Dentist Shot To Death On Playground

No Arrests Made, Police Are Investigating

Reporting
Lou Young
NEW YORK (CBS) ― A father was killed in cold blood while next to his daughter at a Queens playground. The shooting happened in broad daylight -- in the normally safe section of Rego Park, but it's the motive that may be the real surprise.

Dr. Mazoltov Borukhva left the precinct house hours after her ex-husband Daniel Malakov was gunned downed in her presence on a city sidewalk by men presumed to be hired killers.

She had nothing to say.

The murder scene is just outside a playground where she was meeting the victim who just last week won sole custody of their only child and was arranging a visitation with her.

"He knew the mother would go crazy not seeing the child so he just gave the child back to the mother," said Natalie Malakov, Borukhva's mother, who believes her young granddaughter witnessed the shooting.

The gruesome scene happened just a few short steps from Malakov's orthodontist practice.

A witness too frightened to speak on camera told CBS 2 HD she saw two men dressed in leather coats as the shots rang out. They both had guns, and fired three shots.

Both sides of the bitter broken marriage are Bukharian Jews from Uzbekistan, of the former Soviet Union.

The victim's family believes the killing has something to do with the custody battle. They say that her mother was upset during the custody struggle for the little girl.

"Last Sunday he got the baby, I'm afraid for myself and my kids, and my husband because the woman threatened that she would kill every single person in our family," said Natalie Malakov.

No arrests have been made in the case.

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