MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A group of people told police they were leaving an IHOP in Midtown when two guys sitting just a table away robbed them.
Police are searching for the suspects while the victims told WREG they never saw any red flags and had no idea they were going to be a target.
“It was an empty table and then it was them. We thought it was a double date. It was two girls and two boys,” said one of the victims who asked us to keep her identity hidden for safety reasons. “I’m not thinking the whole time they are sizing me and trying to see if we have money. I’m not thinking like that, but that’s what it was.”
She and her friends finished their meal at the IHOP on Union just before midnight Sunday.
They walked to their car parked out front, got in it and then moments later, saw a gun pointed right at them.
“He was like, ‘you know what’s going on! Where the money at? We seen you with the money! Where the money at?'” she said.
The two men reportedly surrounded their car and one cocked his gun while the women stood behind them.
“I got three girls to come home to. I didn’t want to move or do anything wrong,” said the victim.
She said the driver handed over a wallet and some cigarettes and hit the gas.
“When we went down the street, the first officer we saw we pulled them over,” she said.
Police are now working with IHOP to find the suspects.
A spokesperson with the pancake chain told WREG they gave all security tapes to detectives and are offering any help they can.
“Things I`ve seen in this city, I don’t think anything is too bold,” said one customer leaving Monday.
He and others weren’t surprised this happened considering all the violent crime already reported in Memphis this year.
The victim just thought she’d never be a part of it.
“It’s just scary people are watching you. You don’t know who the people are, and why they are doing it to you,” she said.
The victims told WREG they don’t know why they were targeted.
They did pay for their meal in cash but they were discrete about it.
Hopefully, the security footage provides police with more insight.