Jerusalem ( CNN ) -- A prison inmate who murdered a Maryland teen was killed Sunday after he shot three guards inside an Israeli prison , officials said . Samuel Sheinbein , who fled the United States for Israel after the 1997 killing , was shot Sunday evening by police special forces and guards at Rimonim Prison , Israel Prison Service spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said . Sheinbein , 34 , shot at the guards from inside the prison 's restrooms , Weizman said . Two of them were seriously wounded , and the third sustained minor injuries , she said . It was unclear how he got the weapon . Sheinbein , a citizen of Israel and the United States , pleaded guilty to murder in 1999 in the gruesome killing of Alfredo Tello Jr . Prosecutors accused Sheinbein and accomplice Aaron Needle of picking up Tello from work in Silver Spring , Maryland , and deciding to kill him . They strangled him with a rope , struck him on the head with a blunt object and slashed him . Two days later , prosecutors said , they dismembered the victim and burned his body . After fleeing to Israel , Sheinbein admitted to the dismemberment and burning of the victim . He said Needle , who was arrested in the murder but hanged himself in jail , was the killer . The Israeli Supreme Court had ruled that Sheinbein could not be extradited to the United States .
Convicted murderer David Sheinbein is killed in a prison riot . Guards and special forces arrested him after he shot three guards . Two guards were seriously injured ; a third guard has minor injuries . Sheinbein fled to Canada after the 1997 murder of a Maryland woman .