Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the defendant's motion which was to suppress the station house showup identification made by an eyewitness minutes after the shooting with which the defendant was charged. Because the eyewitness knew the defendant before the shooting, the identification was merely confirmatory and the issue of suggestiveness was irrelevant (see People v Matthew,
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