Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
It is well settled that a statement may be admitted under the excited utterance exception to the rule against hearsay, provided that the declarant spoke "while under the stress or influence of the excitement caused by [an external] event, so that his reflective capacity was stilled" (People v Nieves,
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