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.

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

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