ST. LOUIS • Two teens were charged Thursday with knocking a lawyer to the ground and robbing him in downtown St. Louis last week.

Dwjuan Mix, 17, of the 3900 block of Brand Avenue in Normandy, and Jarvis Fisher, 18, of the 3300 block of Clara Avenue in St. Louis, were charged with robbery. Each was held in lieu of $20,000 cash-only bail.

Police say they were among a group that attacked the lawyer at 5 p.m. on a Monday in the heart of downtown. Police say seven or eight teens who surrounded the 32-year-old man on North 10th Street between Locust and Olive streets on Nov. 3. 

The teens knocked the man out after asking him for money, according to police. The group took the man’s cellphone and money from his pocket and ran away. The victim received numerous head and facial injuries, including broken eye sockets and teeth.

The teens were wearing khaki pants and black or navy blue shirts and are students at a charter school near downtown, according to police.

That attack came about a week after two women were beaten by a group of girls in two incidents in the same general area. Police arrested three girls — 12, 13, and 14 — in those incidents. The 13-year-old was pregnant, according to police. A fourth girl was able to evade police.

Police say they have stepped up patrols and taken other precautionary measures downtown.