Hunt Cold-Blooded Killer
Shot dentist in front of his daughter

A day after a Forest Hills orthodontist was shot dead in front of his four-year-old daughter; authorities have found a crude silencer they say was used to muffle the gunshots.
Daniel Malakov, 34, was shot three times in the chest in the Annadale Playground, near P.S. 175, on Sunday, October 28 at approximately 11 a.m.
At the time of his death, he was meeting with his ex-wife, Marina Borukhova, to hand over the couple’s daughter, Michelle, of whom he had been granted custody only the week before, on October 20.
Malakov’s mother, Malka Malakov, 64, has alleged that her estranged daughter-in-law is responsible for the murder.
“She told me three days ago, ‘I’m gonna kill your son,’” Malka Malakov said in reports. “I didn’t believe it.”
Following the incident, officers of the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills questioned Borukhova, a physician, who, according to witnesses, tried to perform CPR on her ex-husband.
Police officials, however, would neither confirm nor deny whether the estranged wife is considered a suspect.
“We spoke to her, but we speak to a lot of people during an investigation,” said Sergeant Kevin Hayes, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department (NYPD).
On Monday, October 29, cops released a photo of what they believe to be a homemade silencer used in the killing. The device consisted of a small bleach bottle covered by duct tape for attachment to the barrel of a gun.
Family members at Malakov’s funeral on Monday at the Schwartz Brothers-Jeffer Memorial Chapel on Queens Boulevard say the couple’s divorce, following six years of marriage, was not an amicable one. They claim that Borukhova would not let Malakov see his daughter when she had custody.
The meeting was arranged the morning of the shooting, and police say that Borukhova and Malakov often met and talked inside the playground.
Malakov was pronounced dead North Shore University Hospital at Forest Hills.
So far, no suspects have been officially named, but police are describing the suspect as a man in his 50s wearing a black hat, black pants and a leather jacket.