An investigation is underway into the death of an Ohio corrections officer. Officer Andrew Lansing was attacked by an inmate on Christmas morning at the Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, according to officials. The prison said Lansing died as a result of the attack.

A Christmas Day attack claimed the life of corrections officer Andrew Lansing at the Ross County Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, Ohio.

An inmate allegedly assaulted and killed a veteran corrections officer on Christmas Day at an Ohio prison, an attack authorities said was "beyond comprehension."

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

An inmate allegedly assaulted and killed a corrections officer on Christmas Day at an Ohio prison. Authorities said the attack was "beyond comprehension."

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

The director of the Ohio prisons said Friday that the man suspected of killing a Ross County prison guard on Christmas Day didn't have a weapon.