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UPDATE: Holcomb Orders Flags Lowered In LaPorte Co. To Honor Prison Guard Who Died

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Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has ordered flags in LaPorte County to be lowered Sunday in remembrance of a prison guard who died in an attack last weekend at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. 

(You can read the release below.) 

INDIANAPOLIS – Governor Eric J. Holcomb is directing flags in LaPorte County to be flown at half-staff on Sunday, February 28, in honor of Indiana Department of Corrections officer Lieutenant Eugene Lasco.

Flags should be flown at half-staff from sunrise until sunset Sunday, February 28.

Gov. Holcomb also asks businesses and residents in LaPorte County to lower their flags to half-staff in memory of Lieutenant Lasco.

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Indiana State Police are investigating an attack that occurred Sunday at the Indiana State Prison that left on guard dead and another seriously injured. 

 

(You can read the release below.) 

Michigan City, IN- Detectives with the Indiana State Police Lowell Post were requested to investigate an assault on two correction officers at the Indiana State Prison located in Michigan City, IN.

Preliminary investigation indicates that around 2:40 p.m. (CST) on February 21, 2021, an inmate attacked two correction officers in a common area. Both correction officers were transported to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Michigan City, IN where one correction officer was pronounced deceased. The second correction officer is in serious condition.

Tymetri Campbell, age 38, an inmate at the Michigan City Prison, faces several preliminary charges, to include murder, as a result of this investigation.

There is no other information to release currently.

*All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.