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Dorchester senior dialed 911 as he died of a stab wound

A Dorchester District Court judge today ordered Verna Sewell, 64, held without bail on a charge of murdering Julius Scott, 74, on May 8, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Prosecutors say Scott managed to dial 911 before dying and told the dispatcher he'd just been stabbed by a woman who had left his Talbot Avenue apartment. The Globe reports he actually managed to pull the knife out of his chest. But by the time EMTs arrived, Scott had bled to death, prosecutors say; he was pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center.

According to prosecutors, a Boston police detective noticed a woman fitting a description provided by Scott's neighbors sitting at a nearby bus shelter:

[T]he detective told her he was investigating a case nearby and engaged her in conversation. She allegedly made statements that she had been in the building earlier, that a man had hit her with a brick, and that they had struggled over a knife.

Sewell was arrested and repeated her story about the brick, but police and EMTs called to check her found "no visible injuries," the DA's office says.

Sewell is next scheduled for a court appearance on May 20.

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