A WILD mountain lion on a rampage has come face to face with unsuspecting people in a residential neighborhood.

The cougar had been wreaking havoc for some time in Herriman, Utah, about 25 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.

It was euthanized on Tuesday night, but not before it killed a sheep belonging to Brooke Proctor and her husband.

“People worried about letting their dogs out, letting their kids out,” resident the wife told KSL-TV.

Earlier this month, wildlife officials were able to track the beast down in the middle of the night.

But they weren’t able to capture or kill the cougar in the dark, and it eventually escaped, Scott Root on the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources told KSL-TV.

The mountain lion made it back to Herriman on Tuesday and made it’s presence known on Proctor’s land.

That’s when her husband went outside to investigate.

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“He shined [the flashlight] underneath our trailer by our watering trough, and he saw two eyes eating a lamb,” Proctor recalled.

“He immediately started freaking out.

“He heard [the cougar] hiss at him.”

Shortly thereafter, police arrived on the scene and euthanized the young mountain lion, which officials said was less than two years old.

“The officers made the right choice to euthanize that mountain lion,” Root said.

“Anytime you have a mountain lion that’s setting up shop in a community, a residential community, an urban area, then that’s not a good thing. We don’t want that mountain lion doing that.

“Public safety is our number one priority.”

Proctor found the gruesome outcome a bit disheartening.

“It was really sad that it had to end up with the turnout it did,” she said.

“But in all end, everyone’s safe and we’re okay.”

Earlier this year, a married couple and their dog were killed by a bear in Canada’s Banff National Forest.