The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting testimony by the victim's grandfather that defendant had come to the victim's apartment building and indicated that a friend of the victim wanted to see her, and that when the grandfather would not permit defendant to see the victim, defendant made a throat-cutting gesture to the grandfather. This evidence completed the narrative of the encounter and the events leading up to the crime (see e.g. People v Crossland...
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