Former UPMC doctor facing preliminary hearing after charge of second-degree murder and attempt of killing his wife in Hawaii

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Honululu, HI) A preliminary hearing will occur today for a former doctor who used to work at UPMC after he attempted to kill his wife in Hawaii. Forty-six-year-old Gerhardt Konig hit his wife with a rock after she did not want to take a selfie on the edge of a cliff. His wife also noted that Konig tried to force an injection of an unknown liquid into her. Konig was put in custody after being charged with second-degree murder and he has a bail of $5 million.