As nice as I would like to imagine it’s true, there has been no actual proof from any news source. The farthest I (or any news source) has been able to trace the story is from a Facebook post which obviously is not conclusive.
Other news sources have published that they have doubts if it’s true, The Jewish Press is the only one that says “We are trying to confirm it one way or the other.” Given the timeline for this story, I don’t have high hopes of it being true.