The two teenagers arrested over a fatal crime spree across Queanbeyan and Canberra on Friday have been charged with murder and will face court on Sunday.
The two youths, aged 15 and 16, faced ACT Childrens Court on Saturday morning and were extradited to NSW in relation to the fatal stabbing of 29-year-old Zeeshan Akbar.
The teenagers were conveyed to Queanbeyan Police Station and were formally charged on Saturday night with murder, robbery, wounding with intent, aggravated enter dwelling with intent and aggravated take and drive conveyance.
The older boy was also charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
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A NSW Police spokesman said the youths would likely face the Parramatta Bail Court via video link on Sunday from Queanbeyan.
At Saturday morning's court hearing Magistrate Karen Fryar ordered the pair be extradited from the ACT to Queanbeyan Police Station, to face the NSW Children's Court "as soon as practicable".
Neither of the boys spoke or showed emotion during the brief extradition hearings, except to confirm their names to the magistrate.
The pair were arrested on the Monaro Highway near Gilmore on Friday morning, after a police chase across Queanbeyan.
Police have investigated their alleged involvement in the stabbing death of 29-year-old Zeeshan Akbar at the Queanbeyan Caltex just before midnight on Thursday night.
The pair are also accused of assaulting a man in Apex Park, breaking into a Stornaway Road home and bashing a man with a tyre iron before stabbing another man in the stomach near Southwell Place in the early hours of Friday morning.
The second stabbing victim was taken to Canberra Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
An Australian Federal Police spokesman said there was no update on the man's condition as of late Saturday morning.
The mother of one of the boys wept as he appeared in court, while another relative encouraged him to "keep your chin up mate".
She told waiting media outside the court that "he's not a terrorist".
The father of the other boy was late to court and did not make it in time to see his son. No other relatives were there for his hearing.
Defence lawyer Paul Smith declined to comment outside the court.
The teenagers were driven in separate police cars to Queanbeyan.
Police investigations continued overnight on Friday at the boys' houses.
Deputy NSW Police Commissioner Catherine Burn told reporters on Friday that the Joint Counter Terrorism Task Force joined the Homicide Squad and Monaro Local Area Command on the investigation because of physical evidence at the service station.
The taskforce is made up of officers from the AFP, NSW police, ASIO and the NSW Crime Commission.