Dallas police are looking for suspects in two robberies of young women along Greenville Avenue early Thursday morning.

Police say the incidents might be related since the robbers in both cases were armed with objects – a bat in one case – as they approached their victims, taking a wallet, a purse, money and credit and debit cards. The robberies were within several blocks of each other between midnight and 2 a.m., according to police reports.

In the first case, the robbers ran toward a woman as she walked with two others in the 2600 block of Greenville near Velasco Avenue. A robber hit her in the face with an unknown object.

In the second case, a robber used a bat to threaten a woman as she walked with another person in the 3200 block of Greenville near Monticello Avenue. The robbers fled in a small gold- or copper-colored four-door vehicle.

There hasn’t been a recent rash of robberies along Greenville, Dallas police Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse said. But he suggests that people in the area be aware of their surroundings, don’t go out late on their own and walk in well-lit areas.

Dallas police often patrol that area, and the department will “definitely keep an eye out in the area for any suspicious activity,” Senior Cpl. Janse said.