MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A county magistrate in Ohio has been fired after she denied a protection order for a woman who was killed less than a week later.

Sharon May, a Richland County domestic relations court magistrate, was fired on Friday

Gaberien Clevenger, 22, filed for a protection order against her estranged husband, Alec Blair, on Jan. 22. She was stabbed to death on Feb. 10, five days after May denied the order.

On Feb. 11, Blair led authorities to a wooded area in Mansfield where Clevenger’s body was found. He was charged with murder in her death.

Blair reportedly told police he knocked Clevenger unconscious, dumped her out of a car and smothered her. He acknowledged stabbing her during a second interview, police said.

Richard County domestic relations Judge Heather Cockley, who signed May’s termination record, said she reviewed the case and found there was “no error of law” in the magistrate’s decision.