A man who barricaded himself inside a home while police attempted to arrest him has died.
Meridian resident Derek Thayer, 43, died May 7 at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center, two days after he barricaded himself inside a Meridian residence for several hours, according to an Ada County Coroner’s Office news release. Thayer was wanted on multiple warrants and, when police attempted to arrest him on Monday, May 5, he refused to exit the residence on the 1400 block of West Loretta Street in north Meridian…