Meyerland couple says stray bullet from nearby apartments pierced bathroom wall

A stray bullet pierced Lisa and Alan Lipman’s bathroom wall in Meyerland, leaving a hole at head height and turning a familiar safety concern into something far more immediate. The couple says the round came from the nearby Life at Jackson Square Apartments on North Braeswood Boulevard, the former Nob Hill complex long shadowed by crime complaints and code trouble.

The Lipmans discovered the damage nine days before speaking out, and the spot where the bullet entered alarmed Alan Lipman because anyone standing there could have been hit. For neighbors along North Braeswood Boulevard, the incident fit a pattern that has made the apartment complex a source of anxiety far beyond its property lines.

Houston police have repeatedly tied the address, 5410 North Braeswood Boulevard, to serious violence. Investigators said they worked a fatal shooting there on May 24, 2025, and identified the victim as 18-year-old Kenneth Leaks. Police later said three suspects were charged in the case: Zion Armon Mitchell, Miles Julian Edwards and Isaiah Crooms.

That history has reinforced fears among nearby homeowners that the danger is not limited to the tenants inside the complex. Residents around the property have described years of squatters, near-nightly gunfire, burglaries, fires, rats, roaches, mold, broken gates and other unsafe conditions, and city officials inspected the site in May 2026 after continued complaints. The property also carries older baggage. A 2017 Houston Chronicle report linked the former Nob Hill Apartments to the killing of 10-month-old Messiah Justice Marshall, deepening a reputation that has never really gone away.

The setting only heightens the concern. Meyerland sits in southwest Houston along Brays Bayou at the southwest corner of Loop 610, in a largely residential area developed beginning in the 1950s and known for many of Houston’s Jewish institutions. The city classifies it as Super Neighborhood 31, a framework meant to help residents and local stakeholders work through neighborhood problems before they spill further outward.

City Hall says code enforcement uses building codes, sign codes, nuisance violations and beautification projects to clean up neighborhoods, and a separate apartment-inspection proposal says habitability complaints in multi-family housing remain frequent. For the Lipmans and their neighbors, the bathroom wall is the clearest proof yet that repeated warnings, repeated complaints and repeated gunfire have left nearby homeowners carrying the cost of a problem they did not create.