OAKLAND -- The prime suspect in the shocking killing of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey has spoken out for the first time since his arrest and insisted he's innocent of the crime and that the police forced him to confess during an exclusive interview with KTVU.

In an exclusive jailhouse interview, Devaughndre Broussard told KTVU News he never confessed to the crime.

Inside a first floor visitation room at the Oakland jail Thursday afternoon, the 19-year-old suspect in the murder of Chauncey Bailey told the KTVU News, quote; "I didn't do it."

The Your Black Muslim Bakery janitor emphatically denied that he stalked and killed Oakland Journalist Chauncey Bailey one week ago.

Oakland police say Broussard shot Bailey because he was angry that the journalist was researching the bakery's finances. Police suggest he may have been ordered to do it and are looking for others involved in the killing.

Broussard said he was arrested early last Friday and taken to a room at the Eastmont police station where he says he was beaten and shown a confession he says was created by police.

Oakland Assistant Police Chief Howard Jordan strongly denied that Broussard had been beaten or in any way coerced into giving a confession.

"That is absolutely incorrect," counters Assistant Police Chief Jordan. "[It's] inappropriate for him to say that. I would suggest that if he felt force was used against him, that he make himself available for an internal affairs complaint."

Jordan also questioned Broussard's claim that police had shown him a written confession.

"We typically don't write out our confessions; they're on tape, so that's a little hard for me to swallow," explained Jordan. "We admonish people that they have a right to their attorneys and if they waive their attorneys, we ask them to sign a document that they're waiving their attorney. And it's made under no duress, threats or any promises of leniency."

Inside the cramped visitation room at the jail, Broussard smiled and joked with his family. He told KTVU he had asked police for an attorney but did not get one.

Outside the building, a relative of Broussard's said that family members were encouraging him to speak out because they believed he has already been convicted in the court of public opinion.

"He's not guilty. He did not commit this crime. And he will not be the fall guy for this crime," said the relation, who wished to remain anonymous. "[We] just want the people to know that he is not a bad person, he's not a murderer and we will stand behind him the whole way and it will come out in the end that he is innocent."

Broussard's declaration of innocence came as a federal judge in Oakland ruled that Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings against Your Black Muslim Bakery can go forward.

"We'll review all of the assets that are available and make a determination of how best to liquidate it for the benefit of unsecured creditors."

The bakery and its properties can now be sold to pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to the IRS and the bakery's creditors.

It signals the possible end for an Oakland institution and a long road ahead for Broussard, who faces charges that could bring him life in prison.