Former UPMC doctor pleads not guilty to attempted second-degree murder charge after attempting to kill his wife in Hawaii

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Honululu, HI) According to a report from KGMB, forty-six-year-old Gerhardt Konig has pleaded not guilty during a virtual hearing on Monday to his attempted second-degree murder charge. Authorities in Hawaii confirm that Konig tried to kill his wife after hitting her with a rock multiple times near Pali Lookout because she refused to take a selfie near the edge of a cliff close to the Pali Lookut area. Konig, a former doctor who used to work at UPMC, was also given a restraining order to stay away from his wife by a judge and his wife also stated to police that Konig attempted to get an unknown liquid into her through an injection. A KGMB report also states that Konig is being held without bail. The trial for Konig is on June 9th.