(Valparaiso, IN) - Funeral services are scheduled this afternoon for an Indiana State Prison worker attacked by an inmate.

 

61 year old Michael Keel died eight days ago, succumbing to an injury suffered when hit on the head with a steel pipe at the prison on Michigan City's west side. 

 

Keel was a shop supervisor overseeing inmates working in the prison’s steel shop when hit on the head with the pipe during an argument between himself and the suspect, inmate Jeremy Davidson.

 

Davidson, 39, is serving a 169-year prison sentence on multiple counts of Child Molestation with the potential to have a lot more time added to his sentence if the La Porte County Prosecutor’s office decides to charge him with the murder.

 

Keel lived in the Valparaiso area and worked at the state prison for 29 years. His funeral is scheduled at 3 p.m. this afternoon at Valparaiso Nazarene Church.