A 49-year-old Navy veteran is facing two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after Houston police say he ran over two valet workers outside a new Montrose cocktail bar early Saturday, sending one of them to the hospital. Ademola Adejobi was arrested just after 3 a.m. following the confrontation outside Eleven Eleven, at the corner of Westheimer Road and Yoakum Boulevard.
According to Click2Houston, Houston police were called to the bar around 1:50 a.m. Saturday. Court records identify Adejobi as a Navy veteran and healthcare consultant for Piedmont Hospital, and he had gone to the bar with his wife that night.
Per court records, the trouble began when Adejobi and his wife could not get into the venue's VIP area and left before being seated. Court records also state that valet parkers initially withheld his keys until he paid the $40 fee, a detail that appears to have set the stage for what followed in the parking area moments later.
Conflicting Accounts Of What Happened Next
Once Adejobi managed to take back the vehicle's keys, he tried to leave the parking area, according to court records cited by the station's report. Per Houston police, two valet workers were run over by the vehicle as Adejobi attempted his exit — a 29-year-old and a 23-year-old.
The accounts of exactly what happened diverge sharply. Court records show one valet worker tried to stop Adejobi from leaving, and Adejobi's wife has claimed that one of the workers ended up lying on top of the vehicle. Adejobi himself has claimed he hit only a parking cone, per court records — a version that conflicts with the police account of two workers being struck. The older, 29-year-old worker was rushed to the hospital following the incident.
Adejobi was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and had bond set at a total of $40,000, which he has since posted. The station reached out to Eleven Eleven for comment and for an update on the workers' condition.
Why A Car Counts As A Deadly Weapon
Under Texas Penal Code Section 22.02, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon is a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Texas courts recognize motor vehicles as deadly weapons when used in a manner capable of causing death or serious bodily injury, according to the Xavier Law Firm, which is what elevates a standard assault charge to an aggravated one in cases involving vehicles.
The location of the alleged assault has become one of Montrose's busiest new nightlife destinations. Hoodline previously reported that Eleven Eleven opened as a 4,500-square-foot, Mexico City-inspired cocktail bar with a custom 26-foot oval bar and small plates from Michelin-starred chef Emmanuel Chavez, according to DiningOut. The bar's own guest guidelines establish a strictly enforced smart chic dress code and place its main valet drop-off on Yoakum Street, directly in front of the entrance, per Eleven Eleven's posted policies.
A Redeveloped Corridor Built For Late-Night Crowds
Eleven Eleven sits within Radom Capital's 1111 Westheimer project, a 35,000-square-foot redevelopment of four buildings including the historic 1930s Art Deco Tower Theatre, as detailed by The Real Deal. The property spans 1.47 acres and roughly 30,240 square feet of leasable space in a dense pedestrian corridor, according to LoopNet listings. Next door, the former Tower Theatre building was converted in November 2025 into Doc's Houston, an 11,000-square-foot jazz supper club that seats up to 400 patrons, per Nan & Company Properties.
Eleven Eleven's owners, Army Sadeghi and Brandon Duliakas, also run Melrose, another upscale nightlife concept a few blocks away on Ralph Street in Montrose. That growing footprint of high-volume venues has helped turn the Westheimer and Yoakum intersection into one of the neighborhood's central late-night draws, packing valet stands and sidewalks with crowds well past midnight.
Commercial valet operations on Houston's public streets are required to receive traffic engineer approval and operate within designated valet zones under Article VII of Chapter 26 of the city's code of ordinances. It remains unclear how the valet zone outside Eleven Eleven factored into Saturday's confrontation, and the exact sequence of events in the parking area has not been resolved between the conflicting accounts in court records. Federal provider records separately list Adejobi as chief executive officer of Nayola Consulting LLC, a Houston-based healthcare entity, though it is unclear what bearing, if any, that role has on the pending case.
