Edition: U.S. / Global  After a Stray Shot: A Girl's Family
Seeks Meaning in a Random Loss  Published: August 26, 1990
Daisy L. Rasberry lives as if suspended in time. She has not
been to work for two months. Nor has she slept a full night
since the evening of June 23, when a Saturday shopping trip with
two of her daughters ended with her 10-year-old ''baby,''
Shaniqua, bleeding in her arms from a fatal gunshot wound to the
chest.  The bullet was not meant for Shaniqua. She was killed
when an argument between two men and three clerks at a jewelry
store in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn spilled onto the
sidewalk where she stood browsing for summer shoes with her
mother, her 13-year-old sister, two of her mother's friends and
their three children. Another child, an 8-year-old girl, was
also shot but survived.  ''I do accept it,'' Mrs. Rasberry, 30,
said, ''but I can't believe it.''  Since the death of Shaniqua
Brown, a third-grader from Far Rockaway, Queens, who was known
for her warmth, good grades and funn