Family members of dancer Jeneva ‘Spirit’ Sawyers, who was stabbed earlier this week, are demanding that the police arrest the perpetrator of the attack.

Claudine Grant, mother-in-law of the injured dancer, said that Sawyers is lucky to be alive.

“Jen could have been killed. What would I have told my grandchild? The police need to do their jobs, somebody came and took a statement, yet still the woman who stabbed Jen is on social media posting all kinds of things, it makes the police force look weak,” she said.

Grant thanked members of the public for the outpouring of support, especially those who donated blood to the Blood Bank to facilitate the dancer’s surgery.

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“Thanks to everyone who gave blood. Jen did the surgery on Tuesday morning and she is now out of the danger zone, thank God. She called me after 5 this morning to say that she was feeling a numbness in her hand and I told her to tell the nurses to tell the doctor to make a note of it,” she explained.

Sawyers is a member of the Royalty Divas dance group.

Grant says that an arrest should be made because her daughter-in-law could have died.

“She was about to enter the car when she was stabbed from behind, under her lower left shoulder, it could have easily been her heart dem stab her in. Hell no, we are pressing charges, we are not hungry,” Grant said.

Efforts to contact the policeman who took the report proved futile.