A teenage boy has been charged with the murders of three young ladies at a Taylor Swift-themed young people's dance class in England.

Axel Rudakubana, 17, who faces three counts of destroy plus 10 counts of attempted destroy and one depend of possession of a bladed article after the fatal stabbing of Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, in Southport July 29, made his first look in courtroom Aug. 1.

Authorities had previously kept Rudakubana's identify below wraps attributable to him being underage—he turns 18 Aug. 7—but the judge did not impose any reporting restrictions on his identity, following press inquiries. Merseyside Police said in an announcement Aug. 1 that the teen is from Banks, a village in Lancashire, England.

Rudakubana covered his mouth and nostril alongside with his gray prison-issued sweatshirt as Own Andrew Menary entered the courtroom and did not answer, sitting alongside with his head bowed, when asked to substantiate his identify, the Liverpool Echo reported.

The judge remanded him into custody after the listening to. “You are remanded into formative years accommodation detention until courtroom cases are carried out,” Menary said, in protecting with the newspaper. “I am not granting you bail currently.”

A plea and trial preparation listening to has been location for Oct. 25.

Police had arrested Rudakubana the day of the killings on the “Taylor Swift Yoga and Dance Workshop” at Hart Condo Studio, by which eight a form of young people and two adults were also came across with stab wounds.

“It is miles known that the young people were attending a Taylor Swift tournament at a dance college when the offender armed with a knife walked into the premises and commenced to attack the young people inner,” Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said at a July 29 press conference. “We judge that the adults who were injured were bravely attempting to provide protection to the young those that were being attacked.”

Police are soundless investigating the tragedy. “This stays very much a are residing investigation,” Kennedy said in an Aug. 1 statement, “and we continue to work with our companions from Lancashire Police and Counter Terrorism Policing North West (CTPNW).

Following the attack, Swift, who’s on her Eras World Tour, expressed her condolences to the victims and their loved ones.

“The fright of the day prior to this’s set in Southport is washing over me consistently, and I’m unbiased appropriate fully in shock,” the singer wrote on her Instagram Memoir July 30. “The loss of lifestyles and innocence, and the horrendous trauma inflicted on all individuals who become there, the families, and first responders.”

She continued, “These were unbiased appropriate miniature teens at a dance class. I am at a total loss for the formula to ever carry my sympathies to those families.”