(USA TODAY) -- He lives with his widowed mama. He advocates on behalf of those with mental illness. And now, Bradley Cooper has checked in on one of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, Jeffrey Bauman Jr., who lost both of his legs below the knee.

Bauman was depicted in an AP photo that's turned iconic - the man in the wheelchair being pushed away from the finish line by a man in a cowboy hat.

The actor was accompanied by New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, who tweeted a picture of from Bauman's hospital bed alongside the caption: "Visited #survivor #stud #hero Jeffrey Bauman Jr. today. He was looking great and is a true inspiration. #strong"

It was an act reminiscent of Christian Bale's meeting with victims of the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting last year.

Cooper is in Boston filming Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell's next movie, American Hustle, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale.

Silver Spring, Md. (WUSA9) A WUSA9 hidden camera investigation has stopped an illegal towing operation at one of Montgomery County's most popular shopping centers.
"Oh, my God," exclaimed one victim in shop as she realized she'd been towed. "My van, my voyager."

For updates on this story, or if you've been towed here, contact Investigative Reporter Russ Ptacek at WUSA9, on Twitter or Facebook.

Our cameras recorded G&G tow trucks hooking up cars so quickly at Downtown Silver Spring Center, the cars' owners, a few feet away in a storefront restaurant, had no idea what happened until their cars were already on the hook.