Cannon, 27, for threatening to kill someone, though it isn't immediately clear if Lansing or someone else was the target of those verbal threats, according to the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association.

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.

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (WSYX) — A Correction Officer at Ross Correctional Institution was killed on Christmas Day, according to a release from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction. Andrew Lansing was tragically killed following an inmate assault at Ross Correctional Institution on Christmas Day, officials confirmed.