The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday that there was sufficient evidence for a jury to find Komikka Katrice Gregory, 40, guilty at her trial last year in district court in Minot.

Gregory is serving a 10 year sentence for shooting and killing Ronald Stanley Thompson, 58, in Minot on Nov. 16, 2017. She was originally charged with Class AA felony murder, but the jury found her guilty of the lesser charge of Class B felony manslaughter in October 2018. She was sentenced in February and later appealed her conviction to the supreme court. Her attorney had argued there wasn’t sufficient evidence for the manslaughter conviction, while the prosecution had argued the verdict was correct.

Gregory had claimed at trial that she shot Thompson in self defense after Thompson intervened in a dispute between Gregory and her ex-boyfriend. She claimed Thompson had put his hands on her, threatened her, and blocked her path to the door. The prosecution argued that Thompson was crouching by the couch, holding his arm in front of his chest, when he was shot and that he had been by the sofa in the apartment and not in the hallway blocking Gregory’s path to the door. Gregory also shot Thompson three times.