Deputy shot after woman slips out of handcuffs while in a cop car and grabs the police's own AR-15 rifle

• A police officer has been shot by a woman who freed herself from handcuffs in the back of a cop car.
• Detained after a welfare check, she reached through the car's partition and grabbed the police's AR-15.

A police officer has been shot after a woman handcuffed in the back of a cop car freed herself from handcuffs and started firing his semi-automatic rifle.

Police of Grady County, Oklahoma, arrived at the home of Rachel Clay for a welfare check, according to local news outlet KWTV-TV.

Clay was detained in a police car after she was "crawling around on her hand and knees in the yard and barking at [police]," according to the outlet.

Police video from inside the vehicle showed Clay alone and in the backseat, where she struggled to get out of the handcuffs and eventually freed one of her hands. She then reached through a partition between the front and back seats and grabbed an AR-15, worked out how to operate it, and started firing.

She fired 10 shots, according to reports, striking a civilian and a deputy. The Grady County Sheriff's Office stated an officer was wounded with non-life threatening injuries.

According to records from the Grady County Law Enforcement Center, Clay was arrested after a three-hour standoff in the car. She surrendered and was charged with shooting with intent to kill and is being held under a $1m bond.

According to ABC-7, Clay later tested positive for methamphetamines.

Citing court documents, KFor, an Oklahoma news site, states that Clay has been prescribed medication for a mental illness but is currently unmedicated.

"It's a freak deal. It's one of these ... I'm not going to say one in a million, but you know, it's one of those deals that, you know, once it happens, then you go back and try to make sure it never happens again. That's what we're looking at." said Grady County Undersheriff Gary Boggess.