Police arrested 30-year-old Donnell Lamont Smith and charged him with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
Officers said Smith stabbed 57-year-old Andrei Vass of Norlina in the neck with a pen or a pencil.
Vass told police he met Smith at the Buckhead Saloon in Raleigh and agreed to drive him to a shelter. When Vass asked Smith to get out of the car, police said Smith stabbed Vass.
Vass drove himself a few blocks until he found an officer at Hargett and West streets.
Vass underwent surgery at WakeMed.
