Bond was set at $500,000 each on Wednesday for a homeless couple charged with the Monday night robbery and brutal beating in the South Loop that left a woman in a drug-induced coma for 24 hours.

Cook County Circuit Judge Adam Bourgeois set the $500,000 bonds for Derrick King, 46, and Joyce Burgess, 38, both of the Pacific Garden Mission at 1458 S. Canal St., according to Cook County State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton.

Each is charged with aggravated battery and robbery, she said. Police said they stole a Blackberry.

A man and woman in their 30s went into a store on Roosevelt Road near Wabash Avenue to buy cigarettes about 10:30 p.m. Monday while celebrating the woman’s birthday, according to a police source.

When they left, Burgess and King, who were panhandling near the store, confronted the them. When Burgess asked the woman for a cigarette, she was told to “go get a job” by the woman or her companion, the source said.

A fight ensued and King allegedly grabbed the woman, threw her to the ground and beat her in the head, knocking out most of her upper teeth and leaving her critically inured. She was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the source said.

Simonton, citing court records, said Wednesday that the woman was in a drug-inducted coma for 24 hours and remains in Intensive Care. She suffered bleeding on the brain and has undergone two procedures to drain the fluid and relieve pressure. She also had 14 teeth knocked out in the attack.