Three cougars caused a bit of a commotion in an eastside Salt Lake neighborhood on Tuesday morning — although things have since returned to normal.
According to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, the resident of an Olympus Cove home near 4300 South and 4000 East heard a deer being attacked in his backyard about 6:30 a.m. Footage from his security camera showed three mountain lions attacking and killing the young deer.
Unified Police and DWR biologists responded to the home, which is about half a mile west of the mouth of Neff’s Canyon, but were unable to locate the cougars.