Residents of the northern Mexico city of Culiacan are trying to get back to their routines five days after the Sinaloa drug cartel sowed terror throughout the city.
Restaurants caught in the shootout had repaired their plate-glass windows on Tuesday. But some of their outside walls were still scarred by bullet holes.
Hundreds of cartel gunmen took to the streets with heavy weaponry on Thursday to free a drug lord held by a military patrol, which released him to avoid civilian casualties.
The government later sent in an elite army unit as reinforcements. It now patrols the city streets in trucks and armored vehicles.
Oscar Alfredo attends high school in Culiacan. Watching an army patrol pass, he quipped, "Why now? They should have been here during the gunfight."