Police are trying to catch a couple of restaurant robbers who have been terrorizing customers in the Lower Westheimer area.

Vera Wolf and at least a dozen others have been robbed at gunpoint since early December.

The suspect demands purses, wallets, cash and cell phones.

"I was concentrating on that gun and what I could do not to get shot," said Wolf.

Wolf and a friend had just left a restaurant in the 400 block of Westheimer.

"We were approached by a man on the sidewalk," remembered Wolf.

The gunman ordered Wolf to hand over her purse.

"And I look at him just dumb-founded and I looked down and he has, close to his body, a gun," said Wolf.

She gave him her purse, and then watched him jump into a dark pickup that pulled up along Westheimer.

"They think they're going to go out and make some fast cash," said HPD Sgt. Rich Nieto, with HPD's robbery division. "And they've been using the Lower Westheimer area as kind of a honey hole anytime they need some money."

Talking with all the victims, including one who was robbed while sitting outside a coffee shop, police believe the two suspects are either Hispanic or light-skinned black males around 20 to 25 years old.

The getaway truck is likely a black Ford 150.

"As far as we know, this is the one part of town they are focusing on and we might discover that there are more," said Nieto.

And more potential victims like Vera Wolf, who says the terrifying robbery has had a lasting effect on her. She feels fortunate to be alive and wants others along Lower Westheimer to be on the lookout.

If you know anything that could help police, call HPD's robbery division at 713-308-0700