During the manhunt in Watertown, Massachsetts for Suspect 2 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one police officer delivered milk to the Wells family in Brookline while the city was on lockdown. The photo was posted on the family's Facebook page, and later tweeted by the Boston Police Department.
During the lockdown of the city, Holden's grandmother, visiting from Colorado, Officer John Bradley if he could grab milk for their young couple's 17-month-year old son. He obliged.
Officer Bradley brought two gallons of milk, arriving at the Wells home. Kevin, the young boy's father took the photo of the cop.
"It just meant the world that he literally went out and got two gallons of milk," Holden's mother McKenzie said. "We wanted to pay him, but he wouldn't take money from us. He was just so generous," she added.
The photo has since been shared over 100,000 times, Yahoo News reported.
The manhunt concluded on Friday evening when DzhokarTsarnaev was found hiding in a boat in a Watertown backyard. A shoot-out earlier in the evening had killed his brother, Tamerlan, who was the other suspect in the marathon bombing case.
The dual bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people and have injured over 200 people. Patients have sustined gruesome injuries, and are still being treated at hospitals throughout the city.
The surviving suspected terrorist Dzhokhar awaits a criminal court case.
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