The 15-year-old arrested at the Bite of Seattle shooting will stay locked up in the county’s juvenile detention center, after being there for over a month.

Ultimately, Judge Veronica Galván decided that the teen should remain at the detention center because he is accused of firing a gun into a crowd of people, and remains “a threat to community safety.”

“It’s not a no, just not yet,” Galván told the teen’s father.

A representative for one of the injured victims spoke via video conference, saying they objected to the defendant being released.

According to charging documents, the defendant was standing near Junior Niko-Semo, the 19-year old who was killed at the festival, at the time the first shots were fired.

Witnesses told police that the 15-year-old defendant pulled a firearm from a pouch and shot in the direction of the shots.

When he was arrested, he told officers, “I was getting shot at” and that he shot back in self-defense, according to court documents.

Law enforcement has confirmed that the gun the teen was carrying at the time of his arrest does not match the bullets removed from the three people killed, according to court documents.