INDEPENDENCE, Va. — A Virginia Department of Corrections officer is dead, and two others are hurt after a reported inmate attack inside a Virginia prison.

Officials said this happened just before 8 a.m. Monday morning at River North Correctional Center in the southwestern part of the state, in Grayson County. They said inmate John Holomon Russell, 32, attacked 40-year-old Officer Jeremy Lewis Hall, who was later pronounced deceased at a local hospital. He'd been with the department since April 2024.

Two other officers who were injured have now been released from the hospital.

According to officials with the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC), Russell was serving a nearly 12-year sentence for various offenses, including a carjacking and firearm offense out of Fairfax County in 20

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