MIDDLETOWN — The truck driver charged in the death of a 38-year-old Middletown woman will have to report to court next week.

Jorge Carrasco Jr., 28, of Harlingen, Texas, did not appear in Middletown Municipal Court Wednesday afternoon on the charge of failure to yield turning left. A warrant charging Carrasco with vehicular homicide was to be issued to him when he appeared Wednesday before Municipal Court Judge Mark Wall.

Carrasco’s attorney, who did not provide his name to the court, said he was retained for the traffic violation charge and told Wall he was not notified of the vehicular homicide charge until he arrived in court Wednesday morning. Wall rejected the attorney’s attempt to plead no contest in the traffic violation charge.

“I’m not going to accept a plea of no contest without him present,” Wall said. “He failed to yield the right of way turning left that resulted in someone’s death.”

Police said on April 23 Carrasco attempted to turn left from Ohio 122 into AK Steel’s Wicoff Street entrance when his empty steel truck collided with Melissa J. Renner’s yellow Chevrolet Colbalt. According to the Butler County Coroner’s Office, Renner died from internal injuries.

Carrasco is scheduled to surrender to the court on the vehicular homicide warrant May 9.