According to court papers, a physician from Hawaii has been accused of attempted murder after supposedly attacking his family on a hiking trail in Honolulu, repeatedly striking her with a stone, and trying to inject her with needles before a see intervened.
When Gerhardt Konig asked Arielle Konig to get a photo near the trail’s border on Monday while she was hiking the Pali Puka Trail with her father. She turned down and began to leave, according to the records, fearing harm. Konig reportedly shoved her into the trees and launched a brutal assault when she refused to come back.
Her father, according to Arielle Konig’s accounts, allegedly struck her in the mind with a stone ten days before slapping her face into the ground while holding her head. She claimed that he then attempted to introduce her with two syringes from his case, but she was unsuccessful.
A woman was spotted by a see, named Amanda, who reported hearing a female yelling for help and flew toward the top of the road where she saw a guy punching her in the head. After the testimony was spotted, the assume stopped his assault, and a second victim dialed 911.
Arielle Konig reportedly told police that her father was trying to kill her when officers arrived and that he had been identified as the perpetrator. He’s rocking me in the mind. She was taken to a hospital in a critical but stable condition after several nose and facial abrasions.
Gerhardt Konig, 46, a resident of Maui, was detained on Monday nights and charged with second-degree attempted death. He showed up in court on Thursday, but he did not enter a appeal. His initial hearing is scheduled for March 31.
In a statement expressing surprise and concern over the affair, Konig’s ex-wife and her current husband said,” We are shocked and saddened by this news, and our souls are with Ari.”
According to Maui Health, Konig works for an indie company that has contracts to deliver health care to different Maui health facilities. His past positions include those in Pittsburgh, where he previously worked as an attending doctor for a children’s hospital and as an assistant professor of engineering and urology at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Engineering.
