Authorities have identified the inmate involved in the assault that led to the death of a correction officer at Ross Correctional Institution on Christmas.

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 veteran corrections officer on Christmas Day at an Ohio prison, an attack authorities said was "beyond comprehension."

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

Investigators: Ohio corrections officer dies after being attacked by inmate