Officer's son sentenced to life for cab driver's murder

SAVANNAH - The teen-age son of a Chatham County police officer was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after jurors found him guilty of fatally shooting a taxi driver. <br> <br> Chatham County police Sergeant Mike Wilson coaxed his son, Michael Anthony Wilson The Second, into surrendering last April when the taxi driver was found slain in his cab outside the younger Wilson&#39;s apartment. <br> <br> Fifty-seven-year-old John Barker was shot four times -- three in the head and one in the back. Police later found a .380 chrome handgun hidden in Wilson&#39;s freezer inside a box of corndogs. <br> <br> A neighbor, Thein Thompson, testified he heard gunshots outside his apartment early April second, then saw Wilson run inside. He said Wilson was carrying a shiny chrome object and wearing a red sweatshirt, later found in a trash bin behind the apartment building. <br> <br> Wilson&#39;s girlfriend testified that she helped him wrap the sweatshirt in a tablecloth and put it in a garbage bag. <br> <br> Wilson, who was 18 at the time of the slaying, did not testify during the trial. Neither did his father, who had been listed as a prosecution witness.