San Bernardino County to reopen for business after attacks

Published 9:18 am Monday, December 7, 2015

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.  — Thousands of employees of San Bernardino County are preparing to return to work today, five days after a county restaurant inspector and his wife opened fire on a gathering of his co-workers, killing 14 people and wounding 21.

The reopening of much of the government’s offices signals an effort to return to normalcy for a community that has been in shock and mourning since the killings .

On Sunday, residents gathered at a church, a mosque, a makeshift street-corner memorial and other sites to mourn the victims and call for the community to unite in mourning and not be divided by the disclosure that the killers were a religious Muslim couple.

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“It’s unfortunate that we’re on this list now, a list like Newtown, Aurora and others where such tragic events occurred,” Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., told a crowd at a mosque. “It’s not how I want San Bernardino remembered.”

President Barack Obama delivered a prime-time address Sunday night, telling the nation the attack was an “act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people.”