UPDATED, 11 a.m. | Within an hour of Monday’s publication of a City Paper story of the vandalism of a mess of bronze shrimp from a life-sized statue of the late Capt. Wayne Magwood on Saturday, somebody returned them to a pedestrian boardwalk on Shem Creek.
The news thrilled his daughter, Mount Pleasant resident Tressy Mellichamp. She said someone called her as she was cooking breakfast around 9 a.m. Monday. The caller said the 10-pound bronze cast of shrimp that was removed from the statue appeared to be on the bridge in at the statue’s base. In the original sculpture, Magwood held the shrimp.
“I ran up the side of that bridge – it was covered in ice – and started balling,” Mellichamp said. “Somebody just laid it down on top of the shrimp basket. They were there.”
Relieved, she added, “We will get it reattached in such a way this will not happen again.”…