INDEPENDENCE, Ky. -- Four boys, ages 10 and 13, have been charged in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy in Northern Kentucky Dec. 2.

A 10-year-old accused of shooting Timothy Cooper in the chest was charged with wanton endangerment.

That boy and two others, 10 and 13, were charged with burglary for stealing the .22-caliber rifle and other items from a house in the 400 block of Hilltop Lane in Latonia.

A 13-year-old was charged with receiving stolen property.

Cooper was not charged. He is recovering and has been released from the hospital, police say.

Police say the boys were playing with the rifle on a front porch in the 400 block of Hilltop Lane when Cooper was shot.

After the shooting, the boys panicked and threw the rifle into a nearby lake, police said.

Dive crews recovered the gun.