A Suffolk Superior Court clerk magistrate today set a June 28, 2010, trial date for a 64-year-old Dorchester woman accused of stabbing her 74-year-old male friend to death in May, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

Indicted June 16, VERNA SEWELL (D.O.B. 12/21/44) is charged with second-degree murder for the May 8 stabbing of 74-year-old Julius Scott in his Dorchester residence. Evidence suggests that Sewell had been living in Scott’s Talbot Street studio apartment for several months before the stabbing.

In addition to scheduling the trial date, Clerk Magistrate Gary D. Wilson accommodated Assistant District Attorney Ian Polumbaum’s recommendation that Sewell remain held without bail pending a bail review hearing next week.

Polumbaum told the court that, at about 7:30 p.m., Scott called 911 and told a police dispatcher that he had been “stabbed in the heart” by a female who had left the apartment, and that he had removed the knife from his own chest. Boston Police officers and emergency medical technicians who responded to the scene found Scott sitting unresponsive on a chair; his cell phone and a bloody steak knife lay on the floor beside him. Scott was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead of his injuries.

Polumbaum also told the court that Boston Police homicide detectives obtained a search warrant for Scott’s first-floor studio apartment and also got a description of the woman who had been living with him.

Polumbaum said that, at about 2 a.m., a detective took a break from processing the crime scene and walked up the street. The detective saw a woman matching the suspect’s description sitting in a nearby bus shelter with blood in her hair and on her clothes. That woman was later identified as the defendant.

When the detective asked her what she was doing, the prosecutor said, Sewell allegedly responded that she was waiting for a bus, and returned the inquiry. The detective told her that he was investigating an incident up the street.

“She said she had been in the building,” Polumbaum said. “She said that a man had hit her with a brick.”

Sewell agreed to accompany the detective to police headquarters, where she waived her Miranda rights and consented to a recorded interview. During that interview, “she backed off the story about the brick,” Polumbaum said. Instead, she told detectives that after a night of drinking together, the victim attacked her with a knife and they “struggled” over it. She told detectives that she never had control of the knife, but at some point during the struggle, “the knife ended up in his chest,” Polumbaum said.

She left the scene at that point and later decided not to return after seeing police vehicles outside.

Sewell was examined by EMTs and physicians who determined that the blood on her hair and clothes was not a result of any injury she had sustained, and that she had no visible injury other than a small abrasion on her head that was not bleeding.

That abrasion “was not consistent with being struck by a brick or knife,” Polumbaum said. There were no injuries to her body and no defensive wounds to her hands, he told the court.

Sewell allegedly made statements at the hospital claiming that the man she fought with had swung the knife, hit her with it, and then “fell on the knife.”

Polumbaum told the court that a medical examiner determined that Scott died from a three-inch deep stab wound to his upper chest that was inflicted at a downward angle. He also suffered from a cut on his nose that was consistent with a cut from a sharp blade. He said there was also no evidence of any struggle in the apartment.

Sewell is represented by attorney Aviva Jeruchim and will return to court on July 9.