A man was stabbed to death late Friday evening during a fight between roommates at the 909 East Broad apartment building just east of downtown, Athens-Clarke county police said.

The surviving roommate was not arrested and the fatal stabbing may have been an act of self-defense, according to Epifanio Rodriguez, public information officer for the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.

A neighbor who heard the roommates fighting called 911 at 4 p.m.

Police arrived to find one roommate had been stabbed and the other responsible for the fatal injury still on the scene.

The victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead, Rodriguez said

Police were withholding the names of both men early Friday night because their family members had yet to be officially notified.

Rodriguez said he could only identify the roommates as white males in their 20s. Though many students live at 909 East Broad, Rodriguez said neither roommate in the deadly altercation attended the University of Georgia.

Though not charged, the roommate responsible for the fatal stabbing gave statements about the incident to police Friday night, Rodriguez said.

Follow Criminal Justice reporter Joe Johnson at www.facebook.com/JoeJohnsonABH or www.twitter.com/JoeJohnsonABH