Cop Act of Kindness Photo Goes Viral, Milk Delivery to Family With Baby During Lockdown After Boston Marathon Bombings

While Boston was on lockdown Friday and the manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was ongoing, one Brookline police officer achieved fame by delivering milk to a family with a baby in Watertown.

The family was in need of milk for their 17-month-old son, Holden Wells, and the boy's grandmother,Trish Sommers, asked the officer if he could get some for them, as they were unable to leave the house.  The family snapped the picture of Officer John Bradley when he returned with two gallons of milk.

"It just meant the world that he literally went out and got two gallons of milk,'' the boy's mother, McKenzie Wells, told TODAY.com. "We wanted to pay him but he wouldn't take money from us. He was just so generous.''

The photo went viral after the family posted it on facebook that day and the Boston Police Department tweeted about it, according to yahoo! news.  The tweet said, "BPD Officer delivers milk to a family with young children in Watertown during the lockdown.."

"The fact that it went as viral as it did was kind of crazy,'' McKenzie Wells said to TODAY. "We kind of thought we were going to get in trouble at first, so we pulled it off. We just didn't want to upset the officer, but we didn't think it would be everywhere."

"He was just happy to be able to help,'' Lt. Phil Harrington, spokesperson for the Brookline Police Department, wrote in an email, accoridng to TODAY. "He does not want to take credit from the many officers who were there doing their job."

The family's home is situated between where the initial gun battle between police and Tsarnaev occurred and where he was later captureed while hiding inside of a boat after a second gun battle, TODAY reported.

The photo was representative of kindness and compassion in wake of the devistation caused by the Boston Marathon bombings and it has been shared more than 100,000 times, according to TODAY.  It is refreshing to see kindness amidst all of the fear and uncertainty.

"After the cop photo [went] viral, people [found] themselves more thankful than before for the level of safety provided by police and the FBI over the course of the day on Friday," wrote the Examiner.