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Each semester, tens of thousands of students flood BYU's 700-acre campus. At a school owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, safety isn’t just a priority — it’s a system.

The Orem Police Department responds to a shooting at Axis Luxury Student Living. Two students were shot and are expected to make a full recovery. (Video courtesy of Dejon Brooks) The stabbings of four University of Idaho students, a shooting at University of Virginia, a suspected bomb threat at The University of Utah hospital and the most recent shooting at Axis Luxury Student Living in Orem have generated questions about the safety of college campuses.

Editor's note: The following story was written with the victim's permission.

Differences in the way police report on- and off-campus crimes makes it unclear how many off-campus crimes involve students. (Jessica Olsen)

'Aug. 28 — A suspicious person was reported to be lurking in the shadows at 67th and Wymount around midnight. It was a lost parent of a tenant.'