Defendant's right of confrontation was not violated when the court admitted, as an excited utterance, the murder victim's declaration to the first officer on the scene that he had an argument with defendant (whom he identified by his nickname) and that defendant shot him three times. Whether a particular excited utterance is "testimonial" under Crawford v Washington (
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