April Smith, a resident at Blossom Apartments, shows the bandages covering her recent surgical scars in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. Residents at the apartment lost water service this week after JXN Water shut it off because of large unpaid bills by the property owner. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
April Smith, a resident of south Jackson’s Blossom Apartments, returned from an outpatient surgery Wednesday to find that her water services had been shut off.
She’d seen it coming. Her landlord had been in the news in recent months for falling behind on the property’s water bill by more than $400,000.
