Thousands of Golden Knights fans lined the Strip on Saturday for a Stanley Cup victory parade and rally in front of the team's home arena to mark the city's first NHL championship.

For the team that played its first game as an expansion franchise in October 2017 and for tourists in hotel rooms with windows overlooking the parade route in 2023, the event bore echoes of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history five years ago. Guests in high-rises with views of the Strip were awakened by security guards asking to check around windows for guns or other weapons.