`Everything Fell Together Perfectly' After Policeman Wounded By Robber -- Suspect Behind Bars; Officer Recovering

Barely 20 minutes after a gunbattle wounded a police officer at a branch of University Savings Bank yesterday, a suspect was in handcuffs, captured in a downtown auto dealership where he used to work.

"Everything fell together perfectly," said police media-information Officer Sean O'Donnell.

Officer Gene McClanahan, 34, a seven-year police veteran, was treated at Harborview Medical Center and released about two hours after exchanging shots with a bank robber near Roosevelt Way Northeast and Northeast 65th Street.

He'd been shot in the right shoulder, a bullet clipped his ear, and fragments from heavy door glass were embedded in his face.

The shooting began about 9:50 a.m. at the bank's Roosevelt Square Branch, 1037 N.E. 65th St., when the robber entered the bank and displayed a pistol.

McClanahan, working off-duty, identified himself as a police officer, drew his own revolver and told everyone in the bank to get on the floor.

Then the robber and the officer began shooting at each other, leaving bullet holes in walls and shattered windows.

The robber fled, but police broadcast a license number and description of the car, and a state trooper followed the car to a Honda auto dealership at 1015 Olive Way.

The suspect tried to make it appear he was leaving the car for service, but he was pointed out by employees to police. Officers recovered a pistol from a bag the suspect was carrying.

The suspect, identified as John Jefferson Martin, 42, was taken to Harborview Medical Center for examination and then booked into the King County Jail. Seattle Times staff reporter Dee Norton contributed to this report.