TORONTO - A white supremacist who once led the neo-Nazi Heritage Front has reportedly been shot dead in a suburban Toronto apartment.

Reports say Wolfgang Droege was found dead after police responded to complaints of gunshots at a Scarborough apartment building Wednesday afternoon.

When they arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds in the hall of the building and a suspect barricaded inside an apartment.

Police negotiated with the man for an hour before arresting him.

They say no hostages were involved in the standoff but a school nearby was locked down for safety during the standoff.

Police gave no information about the victim or the shooter or the relationship between them.

Born in Germany

Droege, 55, was born in Germany and moved to Canada in the early 1970s.

He joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1976 and tried to start a branch of the group in Toronto.

In 1981, he helped organize a failed attempt to invade the Caribbean country of Dominica and overthrow its government. He was given a three-year prison sentence.

Droege was arrested in Alabama in 1985 and charged with cocaine possession and a weapons offence. The U.S. deported him to Canada in April 1989 after he served a U.S. prison sentence for those charges.

In October of that year he set up the now-defunct Heritage Front.

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I saw this story on The National last night, and it came as a huge shock to me. This is the biggest possible thing that could have happened to diffuse Canada's Racial Extremist movement. I'm currently working on finding more details. It's not really clear whether or not his beliefs were a motive in the shooting. I think it's unfortunate if they were, because no one has the right to take someone's life based on their opinions. This was a big deal to me, because I had just finished reading a book by Warren Kinsella about this man and the rest of Canada's hate network. I'm really torn by this event. On the one hand, I don't believe it's right for ANYONE to have their lives ended prematurely, but on the other hand, I'm glad that a man responsible for so much hate and violence will no longer be able to infect Canada's youth.