Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contentions, the police possessed probable cause to place him under arrest, inasmuch as an identified civilian witness, who observed the defendant strike the victim with a blunt object, informed the police at the scene that the defendant was the perpetrator of the crime (see, People v Davis,
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