had previously been suspended but were restored after he challenged the denial in court. He proceeded to the city of Ramla, where he attempted to steal a gun from a man he had met online and arranged for a meeting to buy the gun. On their way to an ammunition store in a car, Sheinbein fled from the seller with the gun. The seller caught and held him until the police arrived. Sheinbein was arrested and returned to prison. He was confined to his cell over the weekend. An indictment was filed against him over the incident, and the Israel Prison Service made a decision to transfer him to another facility. Standoff and death On 23 February 2014, Sheinbein called his attorney, Orit Hayoun, thanking her and telling her goodbye, and that she would hear of him shortly. Fearing that he was about to commit suicide, she called prison authorities and the district attorney's office urging them to take action, but her concerns were dismissed. About half an hour later, while being transferred to a different prison cell, Sheinbein requested a bathroom stop. He pulled out a handgun, and shot three guards, seriously injuring two of them, before barricading himself in the bathroom. A standoff ensued, during which authorities attempted to negotiate with him. The Metzada Unit, Israel's commando unit for disturbances in prisons, was called in. A heavily armed Metzada team with an attack dog arrived on the scene. After an hour, Sheinbein shot at Metzada operators around the room and they returned fire, seriously wounding him. Despite attempts to resuscitate him, Sheinbein died soon afterward. Six officials and one prisoner were wounded by Sheinbein. The shooting occurred one year before Sheinbein would have been eligible to apply for parole. The Israel Prison Service began investigating how Sheinbein had acquired the gun, which was believed to have been smuggled into the prison. Police traced the gun to a resident of central Israel whose gun had been stolen a year before. It was reportedly "the first known case in Israel of an inmate opening fire inside a secured compound". A writer for Tablet Magazine called the fact that Sheinbein was able to acquire a gun "the latest of several major IPS screw-ups". In popular culture "Return", an episode of Law & Order from 2000, was based on the case. The Sheinbein case was cited in the tenth episode of the