Have only read headlines and a couple of internet comments. Also haven’t been down to Bourbon St (or the Quarter in general) at night in several months.
But, isn’t Bourbon St generally pedestrian only on weekends and for special events? Assuming the perps drove around the barricades (which I assume means they somehow drove up the sidewalk)?
Spoke to someone who used to work these big event crowds down there. Said they sometimes remove barricades for the night past a certain point, if this happened deep into the hours of the night, those may have been "picked up" for the day.