HOUSTON — The family of the late Dr. Talat Khan, a physician at Texas Children’s Hospital before her death, filed a lawsuit after she was fatally stabbed inside her apartment complex.
Representing the family, attorneys Mo Aziz of Abraham Watkins and Bilaal Badat filed the suit against Knightvest Management and Alys Luxury Living.
“Apartment complexes and the management companies that own and operate them have a duty to maintain the safety of the premises,” said Aziz. “The danger of ill-maintained and inoperable gates is foreseeable, yet management companies, and their employees, fail to repair or remedy the dangerous condition.”
According to the firm, the stabbing took place on Oct. 28, 2023 around 12:30 p.m. in a common area of the Alys Luxury Living Apartments. The property had a security checkpoint booth, which was unmanned, an electronic entry keypad, which was inoperable, and the gates were left open. There was no control of ingress and egress in the complex. Evidence shows this exact circumstance existed before, during, and even months after the death of Dr. Khan.
Crime statistics for the apartment complex reveal a series of violent crimes in close proximity including, but not limited to, burglaries, aggravated assaults, and homicides from the end of 2018 through the end of 2023.
Dr. Khan was a respected and loved pediatrician at Texas Children’s Pediatrics. Dr. Khan left behind her husband and two children, a press release states.
“Dr. Khan left behind her family and home to serve a community in need, only to be murdered in the complex she entrusted to protect her,” Badat added. “Violent crimes in apartment complexes have become rampant in Houston and surrounding counties, giving even more reason for these complexes to protect their tenants from clearly foreseeable actions.”