772 S.W.2d 551, 555 (Tex.App.-Dallas 1989, writ ref'd). As appellant asserts, the State did not establish the exact amount of time that elapsed between the shooting and Anderson’s statement to Cabbie. However, an approximate length of time was established. The evidence shows that the shooting occurred on March 1, 2001 between 2:20 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. Anderson’s statement was made the same day sometime after 1 a.m., but while it was still dark outside. Thus, although the exact amount of time between the shooting and the statement cannot be ascertained, it is clear that the elapsed time between the shooting and the statement was likely no more than a few hours. We cannot say that this amount of time disqualifies the statement from being an excited utterance. See Zuliani, 97 S.W.3d at 596 (<HOLDING>); Short v. State, 658 S.W.2d 250, 255
holding statements qualified as excited utterances where declarant was scared and tired and her statements were in response to questions twenty hours after the event holding that the statements of a scared to death declarant whispering help me to police officers twenty hours after being assaulted were excited utterances holding that statements made while the declarant was in pain crying bleeding and having trouble breathing were properly admissible as excited utterances holding that the determination of whether statements are excited utterances is within the trial courts discretion and its ruling will be reversed only for an abuse of that discretion holding that the statements of a recently assaulted very upset and crying assault victim were excited utterances