Two of the three Kosciusko County juveniles accused in the fatal shooting of a Lake Wawasee man will face adult charges, a Kosciusko County judge ruled Thursday.

The hearing for the third boy has been postponed.

The boys, two 12-year-olds and a 15-year-old, are charged with various crimes in connection to the shooting death last week of Phillip Danner.

Colt Lundy, the 15-year-old, was Danner's stepson and police said he planned the killing. He was originally charged as a juvenile with murder. One of the 12-year-old boys, Paul Gingerich, was also charged as a juvenile with murder. Chase Williams, 12, was charged as a juvenile with aiding and causing a murder and it was his hearing that has been continued.

Police said Lundy plotted to kill Danner and enlisted the help of the younger boys. After the shooting, the younger two went home, and were believed to have had dinner and gone to bed before sneaking out.

The three were arrested in Peru, Ill., after employees at a Wal-Mart store there called police upon seeing three young boys in the store in the early morning hours, police said.

When the boys were picked up by the Illinois police department, officers there found a .38-caliber revolver in plain view inside Phillip Danner's Dodge Neon, which the boys had taken had taken from the Danner's home. Once the Neon was in the custody of Kosciusko County police, they found the second gun, a .40-caliber Glock semiautomatic.

Phillip Danner was shot four times, police said, by Lundy and Gingerich: once in the eye, once in the wrist and twice in the chest.

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