A state investigation is underway after a Ross Correctional Institution guard died during what's being called an “inmate assault” Christmas morning.

Andrew Lansing, the correction officer who was allegedly killed by an inmate on Christmas Day, will be laid to rest this Friday.

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said its Chillicothe facility was staffed to standards when one of its correction officers was fatally assaulted.

A corrections officer died after an assault by an inmate in an Ohio prison on Christmas morning, authorities say.

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction released new information on the events leading up to the death of corrections officer Andrew Lansing.

Cannon, who did this — is just pure evil," Chambers-Smith said. An incident report from the Ohio Highway Patrol, which is investigating the death, stated that Lansing suffered severe head trauma before his death.