A 12-year-old girl was sprayed with pepper spray during a robbery Monday on Beacon Hill.

The girl was walking about 2:45 p.m. near 25th Avenue South and South Dawson Street when the suspects drove past her in a blue Honda and pulled up.

“As the girl walked toward the suspects’ car, a man and a woman got out and asked her for directions to nearby South Brandon Street,” department spokesman Jonah Spangenthal -Lee said in a statement. “The girl gave the suspects directions and, as she started to walk off, one of the suspects sprayed her in the back of the head and face with Mace.”

“One suspect then grabbed the girl’s backpack, flung her to the ground, and told the girl to hand over her cellphone.”

The suspects got back in the car and sped away. The 12-year-old was not seriously injured.

Several witnesses called 911 and patrols officers arrested the suspects at 46th Avenue South and South Othello Street.

The suspects, two men ages, 20 and 22, and a woman, 19, were booked into King County Jail.

“At the King County Jail, the 19-year-old woman set off a metal detector,” Spangenthal-Lee said, “and female officers found she had hidden a can of Mace inside her bra.”

The woman is being held on $50,000 bail, the 22-year-old is being held on $10,000 bail and the 20-year-old man is being held on $5,000 bail. Charges have not been filed.