Woman slips out of handcuffs and shoots cops with their AR-15

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police car, before finding and unlocking a rifle, which she used to shoot a cop and a member of the public.On August 12, Rachel Zion Clay, 36, had been apprehended and cuffed after “crawling about on her hands and knees in a backyard and howling” in the Grady County area of Oklahoma, with police saying they did this for her own safety.But it was while officers were taking a statement from civilian witness Dale Moses, that Clay managed to wriggle free of the handcuffs, before reaching inside the console of the patrol cruiser, where she found the gun-release switch and unlocked a police AR-15 rifle, with the incident being captured on a dashcam from inside the vehicle.READ MORE: Britain under attack from 'drunk' German wasps that 'go nuts' and sting for no reason She then fired around 10 rounds, hitting a deputy as well as Moses, although neither suffered life-threatening injuries.What then followed was a three-and-a-half hour stand-off, with Clay barricading herself in the car and firing at the patrolmen, before she eventually surrendered following lengthy negotiations and after the arrival of an armoured truck.Grady County Undersheriff Gary Boggess revealed: “While in the back seat of a patrol car, she was able to get her wrist free from the handcuffs and the handcuffs were put on properly.“There’s several switches, one is a gun switch to unlock the gun lock and she found it, unlocked it, and was able to retrieve an AR-15 rifle.“Then she was able to figure out how to put a round in it, put it on fire and she fired approximately 10 rounds at our deputies and a civilian.”Once she had given herself up, she was then taken into custody, while she also tested positive for methamphetamine and is being charged with three counts.