State investigators say that the double murder suspect killed by police in Brooklyn Center earlier this week fired first at officers, striking one of their squad vehicles.
Eddie Duncan, 23, of Minneapolis, was killed during an exchange of fire with three Brooklyn Center police officers outside the IHOP on Xerxes Avenue North on the evening of Monday, Feb. 23.
Hours earlier, Duncan is suspected of killing two of his cousins, Xavier Barnett, 14, and Akwane Davron Shaquelle Stewart, 23, at a home on the 4200 block of Irving Avenue North in Minneapolis…