As previously reported by News Center 7, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) officer Andrew Lansing died following an “inmate assault” at the high-security prison in Ross County on Christmas morning. Visitation and funeral will be at Chillicothe High School’s Hatton Memorial Gymnasium, according to his online obituary.

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.

Andrew Lansing, a corrections officer at a prison in Chillicothe, Ohio, was killed Christmas Day in what state officials say was an "inmate assault."

A correction officer in Ross County was killed Christmas morning by an inmate. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction announced that officer Andrew Lansing died Wednesday morning after being assaulted by an inmate at the Ross County Correctional Institution.

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

Ross Correctional Institution Officer Andrew Lansing was known as a great guy to his family and a fair and firm guard to inmates, his brother said.

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.