Kipper Mease statue stolen from Pasadena sports activities complicated, household presents $2,500 reward for data resulting in arrest

PASADENA, Texas (KTRK) — A heartbroken father is providing a $2,500 reward for the return of a memorial statue devoted to his late son.

The statue of Kipper Mease, an avid athlete, was sawed off on the base and stolen someday on Sunday from the Kipper Mease Sports activities Complicated in Pasadena.

Mease was killed in a automobile crash in 1982 when he was 20.

“It breaks my coronary heart,” Mease’s father, Roy, a former Port of Houston commissioner, stated.

“It by no means entered my thoughts, frankly, that anyone would take it,” Roy stated.

Bridgette Mongeon, the sculptor who created the statue, is simply as mortified. It was her first public piece in Houston.

“It’s somebodys little one and to see it so violently attacked I simply, I cant imagine it,” Mongeon stated.

The statue is solid in bronze, towers a number of ft excessive, and weighs a number of hundred kilos.

“Terrible lot of labor to chop that factor down, to hold it out, get it smelted for $200 or $300, I imply,” Roy stated.

If Roy cannot get the unique statue again, he is keen to pay for a alternative.

“We do have the mildew, I feel, however the mildew the piece was performed so way back that the rubber might be not any good,” Mongenon stated. “However we nonetheless have a approach we will reproduce it.”

“I assume my best want now could be simply (that) I (will) dwell lengthy sufficient to see it caught again up there,” Roy stated.

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