TORONTO, April 14 (UPI) -- A once internationally prominent white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer, Wolfgang Droege, was shot to death in his Toronto apartment.
Police responded to a gunshot complaint Wednesday afternoon and found Droege, 55, dead in a hallway. An unidentified man barricaded in an apartment held officers at bay as a nearby school was locked down and other tenants evacuated, the Globe and Mail reported Thursday.
After negotiations, the man was taken into custody and police released no further details.
German-born Droege began his neo-Nazi activities in the late 1970s, joining the Ku Klux Klan under its leader David Duke and trying to start a branch in Canada.
In 1981, he was one of 10 men convicted of plotting to overthrow the government of Dominica to use the island as a base for drug smuggling to generate funds for white supremacist activities.
Droege was arrested in Alabama in 1985 and charged with cocaine possession and a weapons offence. The United States deported him to Canada in April 1989 after he served a U.S. prison sentence for those charges.
