The court properly admitted a tape of a 911 call placed by a distraught, unidentified caller, briefly describing an attack in progress against a man and a woman at a specified location. The 911 operator requested and obtained a description of the assailant, but otherwise only asked the caller to repeat information he had already volunteered.
We conclude that this evidence satisfied both the excited utterance (see People v Edwards,
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