SALISBURY, N.C. -- An illegal immigrant accused of causing a deadly accident in Landis went before a Rowan County judge for the first time via video camera Thursday morning.

Carlos Alfonso Guillen Martinez, 33, could not be in the Salisbury courtroom because of the injuries he sustained in the crash. He had to be taken to the Rowan County jail on a stretcher because his broken legs are still healing.

Martinez faces second-degree murder and driving while impaired charges. Immigration officials also uncovered he had at least six aliases, including “David Ortiz,” and “Insolito Pineda,”, and has faced charges under each name. His criminal history includes more than a dozen charges.

In 2004 “David Ortis” was arrested by the Kannapolis Police Department for driving while impaired, assault on a law enforcement officer, driving while license revoked, resisting arrest, injury to personal property and fictitious information to an officer. He was sentenced to 19 to 23 months in the department of corrections and was out on probation at the time of the crash -- when he told officers his name was Rigo Guillen Martinez.

Authorities said he has lived in the Kannapolis area for at least seven years.

The El Salvador native has already been deported from the United States twice, and if convicted of the charges against him he will be deported again after serving his prison term.

Authorities say Martinez was speeding away from a Kannapolis police officer on Feb. 6 when he slammed head-on into 20-year-old Leeanna Newman's car on South Main Street in Landis.

Newman and her unborn child were killed. Her young daughter survived the crash.

Sheila Riddle, who owns a business near the scene of the crash, said she can’t believe Martinez has already been deported twice.

“It just stuns me that we can not actually do something about the situation,” she said. “It can’t be taken care of in a permanent way because he’s determined to be here. He keeps coming back.”

After his appearance in court Martinez was taken by Rowan County sheriff’s deputies to the medical unit at Raleigh’s Central Prison. He’ll stay there until his next court appearance.