New Orleans’s famed Bourbon Street tries to return to normalcy after attack

Tight security and makeshift memorials mark scene where 14 people were killed during New Year’s Day celebrations

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A sense of normalcy was returning to New Orleans on Friday as the city continued to deal with the aftermath of a lethal attack by the Islamic State-inspired military veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who killed 14 and wounded dozens before he was killed in a shootout with police.

The scene of the shocking mass murder – the Louisiana city’s famed Bourbon Street nightlife destination – reopened amid tight security on Thursday.