CENTENNIAL — The suspect in the shotgun slaying of an Aurora convenience store clerk confessed to the crime in a videotaped confession shortly after he was captured.

John Andrew Doubleday, 23, who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jutte Gallegos Burton, was in court today to hear the evidence against him.

During the preliminary hearing, prosecutors played an hour-long tape of Doubleday’s first meeting with Aurora police investigators.

"I did what I did, and I’m not going to try to save my butt through an attorney," Doubleday told detectives shortly after he was captured at a Colorado Springs motel on Dec. 21, 10 days after the slaying.

During the interview, Doubleday repeatedly admitted shooting the store clerk, but says the shooting was not planned.

The suspect told investigators he had been drinking for several hours before he and an acquaintance he knows as "Crazy John" left his apartment to rob the store.

Doubleday told detectives he remembers little of what happened inside the store because he was drunk.

But Doubleday said the sawed-off shotgun he used broke open and a shell popped out.

Doubleday said he replaced the shotgun shell and when he closed the weapon, it went off, striking Burton in the back.

Burton, 62, was working the graveyard shift alone at the 7-Eleven at East Sixth Avenue and Havana Street in the predawn hours of Dec. 10.

A customer found her on the floor of the store about 3:15 a.m. and called police.

Burton was pronounced dead at Medical Center of Aurora about half an hour later.