For the tight-knit Queens Bukharan Jewish community, the daylight shooting of a Forest Hills orthodontist over the weekend is evoking disturbing memories of another brazen shooting of one of its members two years ago.

Daniel Malakov, a Columbia University-educated orthodontist, was gunned down in front of his daughter in an incident that some say echoes the shooting of Eduard Nektalov in 2005.

Nektalov, a diamond dealer, was shot on a crowded Midtown street in what investigators said at the time was a contract killing.

Malakov was shot in front of a busy Queens playground at 11 a.m. on Sunday by a suspect whom police have described as a white male wearing a black leather jacket and a black polo hat. A makeshift silencer crafted out of a bleach bottle and duct tape was found at the crime scene.

The director of the Bukharian Jewish Museum, Aron Aronov, said the Bukharan community is stunned at the latest shooting of one of its members, which happened in the heart of a neighborhood populated by many of the city’s 50,000 Jewish immigrants from Central Asia.

“Everybody took this killing, this tragedy, this death, like it was personal. No matter who you speak to, everybody is shocked as if it happened to them,” Mr. Aronov said.

“With Eduard it was the same. It happened when he walked on Sixth Avenue — the sidewalk was very crowded. The same thing happened here, except his daughter was there,” Mr. Aronov added. “The last time something happened it was Mr. Nektalov,” the leader of the Bukharian Jewish Congress, Boris Kandov, said. “When they heard about this shooting, the whole community was very surprised.”

Mr. Kandov said he visited the stricken Malakov family on Sunday, as news of the shooting spread rapidly through Forest Hills and Rego Park. Community leaders said the Malakovs are a Bukharan prominent family that lost another member, Malakov’s sister, to leukemia last year.

“The father was unbelievably shocked. He asked, ‘Is this true? Is this true? Maybe he didn’t die,'” Mr. Kandov said

Malakov’s aunt, Hannah Mushiyeva, 63, said thousands of people attended to the funeral yesterday to express their condolences.

“All the community, everybody was there,” she said.

Malakov had been going through a protracted custody battle with his former wife, family members have said. Although he won full custody of his 4-year-old daughter last week, his aunt and sister said he was allowing her mother to spend time with her. He was taking his daughter to meet her mother on Sunday morning when he was killed.

“All their efforts were put into raising their children. This family, they know that in America, to make your way is education,” Mr. Aronov said. “They built a very different picture of their future.”