Mount Pleasant resident Tressy Mellichamp cried tears of joy Monday morning when she learned somebody returned 10 pounds of sculpted bronze shrimp ripped from a life-sized bronze Shem Creek statue of her father, the late Capt. Wayne Magwood.
She said she was cooking breakfast Monday when a friend called to say that the missing shrimp stolen from the statue over the weekend appeared to be back. Somebody placed the shrimp in a basket at the base of the statue on a pedestrian boardwalk over Shem Creek. In the original sculpture, Magwood held the shrimp.
“I ran up the side of that bridge — it was covered in ice — and started bawling,” Mellichamp said. “Somebody just laid it down on top of the shrimp basket. They were there.”…