CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (WKRC) - The funeral for Officer Andrew Lansing, who was killed on Christmas Day, was scheduled for this Friday. The service will be held at 1 p.m. in the Chillicothe High School gym. Officer Lansing was attacked and killed by an inmate on Christmas morning while in his guard shack at the Ross Correctional Institution.

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.

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.

Correction Officer Andrew Lansing died after an inmate assault at Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe

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

Funeral services for slain Ohio corrections officer Andrew Lansing will be held on Jan. 3 in Chillicothe. Rashawn Cannon, 27, is accused of fatally attacking Lansing, 62, on Christmas morning at Ross Correctional Institution in Chillicothe. The state ...

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.

A corrections officer was reportedly the victim of a brutal Christmas Day attack by an inmate at the Ross Correctional Institution in Ross County, Ohio.