Pittsburgh police are investigating a weekend attack in a Downtown convenience store, the latest in a string of violent crimes in the city’s central business district.

Four boys assaulted a man Saturday afternoon inside a 7-Eleven store at 601 Penn Ave. in the heart of the Cultural District, police said.

The victim, who police did not name, told reporters the teens surrounded him, then punched and kicked him as he ran from the store, which is across the street from Heinz Hall.

“There are no arrests in this case just yet,” Cara Cruz, a police spokeswoman, told TribLive Wednesday. Police are viewing surveillance footage to identify the juveniles.

Nobody answered the phone Wednesday afternoon at the 7-Eleven on Penn Avenue.

A woman who answered the phone Wednesday at The Roosevelt Building, the apartment complex where the convenience store operates on the ground floor, declined to comment on the attack.

“It’s happening all over Downtown, that’s all I can say,” said the woman, who did not identify herself. “Until they figure out how to handle this, it’s gonna keep happening.”

Saturday’s incident comes during a rocky few months for Downtown Pittsburgh — following a fatal shooting, a stabbing in front of a police substation, and a Market Square fight that triggered a night time youth chaperone policy.

A Duquesne teen died after being shot around 11 p.m. May 11 in Market Square.

Terryll Little, 19, died in the hospital after being shot twice in the chest, police said. He became the neighborhood’s first homicide victim in 2026.

A March brawl in broad daylight involving 40 people in Market Square led to officials introducing a temporary chaperone policy.

The policy, which started April 30, requires children younger than 18 to be accompanied by an adult when visiting Market Square. That policy in effect from 3 p.m. to midnight, Thursdays through Sundays.

In late April, as hundreds of thousands of visitors descended on the city for the 2026 NFL Draft, a teenager was stabbed in front of a police substation near Market Square. Police later arrested a 15-year-old girl in the attack and charged her as an adult.

Downtown crime is up this year, online police data show. Reported crime there has jumped more than 40% to 1,530 incidents from Jan. 1 through April 30, up from 1,067 incidents during the same time last year.

Aggravated assaults more than doubled from year on year during that four-month window. Sex offenses are also up, but reported robberies are down.