Getty Images America wants to help David Henneberry get a new boat. The Watertown, Mass., resident became a hero when he discovered suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in his backyard boat. Henneberry quickly called the cops and in a final standoff, his boat was riddled with bullet holes. "That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't believe. And they told him it's all shot up," Henneberry's friend and neighbor George Pizzuto told ABC News. "He's going to be heartbroken." Today, people around the country want to make help mend that broken heart. Deborah Newberry, 62, of Orlando, Fla., has already put a $25 check in the mail to Henneberry's home. "Something told him to go and check things," Newberry told ABCNews.com. "I just want him to know that people care about him because I know he's probably the guy that would say, 'Well, that's okay.' But I just would like him to know that we're all thinking about him and appreciate his spirit." She believes Henneberry had to be "awfully, awfully cool" to emerge from a daylong lockdown, notice something wrong with his boat, find a bloody man in it and slip away to call police. "Just listening to his coolness and how he handled the situation, it was like okay, that is a man who needs to have his boat restored," Newberry said. When asked if she sent Henneberry any note with the check Newberry said no, she simply wrote, "towards a new boat" on the check.
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