Joshua Luke Green and his friends did not realize Green had been cut and stabbed until he was back in the car they were riding in following a fight on Mills and West Tenth Street, according to the Halifax County Sheriff's Office.

The friends immediately drove Green, 26, to Halifax Regional Medical Center where he died from the wounds, Detective Rich Somogyi told rrspin.com Sunday night at a press briefing in which no other media attended.

The sheriff's office was notified of the stabbing by emergency room staff at the hospital.

While the sheriff's office received a call about a large fight in the roadway of West Tenth and Mills streets, deputies who responded and contacted several people about it were told there was nothing to it, Somogyi said.

After further investigation upon receiving notice from the hospital shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, deputies and investigators from C squad were able to put the pieces together, from an earlier fight at the VFW at the intersection of West Tenth Street and Zoo Road, where there was a concert and costume party, to the scuffle at Mills and West Tenth streets.

The reason they were fighting is still under investigation, Somogyi said.

What is known is that at some point following the initial fight at the VFW, Green and his friends were riding down West Tenth Street when a beer bottle was thrown at the car they were in by pedestrians and a fight ensued. Green was stabbed with what Captain Jay Burch described Sunday as a folding knife, which was recovered. He was stabbed twice in the side and cut in the neck.

It is not clear which of the two men arrested in the case, Curtis Wayne Edwards and Kasey O'Neal Tanner, allegedly stabbed and cut Green, Somogyi said.

Both men, Edwards, 43, and Tanner, 23, both of Roanoke Rapids, are being held without the opportunity for bond and have December 7 court dates.