AWOL soldier gets 160 years in slaying

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WAYNE, W.Va. — An Army deserter from Ohio has received a 160-year prison sentence for his role in the slaying of a West Virginia minister.

Wayne Circuit Judge Darrell Pratt sentenced Stephen Wilson of Cincinnati on Monday to 40 years for second-degree murder and 120 years for first-degree robbery.

A jury convicted the Cincinnati man, 21, in December.

Wilson is one of two men convicted of robbing and killing the Rev. Mark McCalla in June 2008 at a Beech Fork gun range.

Daniel Smith of Newport News, Va., is serving a life sentence with the chance for parole for first-degree murder and 90 years for first-degree robbery.

The Army has said Wilson and Smith went absent without leave from Fort Drum in May 2008.