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

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.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol has identified a suspect for the prison guard killed on Christmas Day in Chillicothe. Correction Officer Andrew Lansing died after an inmate assault at Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe,