Editor's note: This story was updated at 3:38 p.m. with information about what prompted the incident.

A phone argument between a man and his girlfriend led to a shooting and stabbing fight that injured two people this morning in Athens.

A man accused of breaking through a door and stabbing a man reportedly was being loud while arguing on the phone with his girlfriend outside a home on Alcorn Hill Circle around 10:30 a.m., police said.

A neighbor, who was bothered by the volume of the argument, was yelling with the man through the walls. When the neighbor came outside, the two men engaged in a minimal argument, Chief Floyd Johnson said.

But, the man who had been yelling with his girlfriend later broke the window on the door to the neighbor's home and stabbed his chest, Johnson said. The stabbing suspect doesn't live in the neighborhood but had been visiting with a relative.

In retaliation, the neighbor shot the man's chest twice with a pistol.

The shooting victim was taken by helicopter to Huntsville Hospital. The stabbing victim was treated and released at Athens-Limestone Hospital.

Johnson said neither man was arrested, but the incident remains under investigation.

"In the future our investigators will carry the District Attorney a copy of this case and ask him to review it to determine if he wishes to place it on a future grand jury," Johnson said.

A grand jury hears evidence to determine whether enough evidence exists to send a case to trial and formally charge a suspect.

An update on the shooting victim's condition wasn't immediately available.