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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Honululu, HI) A former UPMC doctor who was charged with second-degree murder was in court for the first time on Thursday. Forty-six-year-old Gerhardt Konig struck his wife with a rock near a hiking trail in Hawaii and was held on his charges. According to a report from KGMB-TV, court documents confirm that Konig hit his wife when she did not take a selfie near the edge of a cliff. His wife also spoke to police and said he attempted to inject an unknown liquid into her. She also stated that her face was hit into the ground after Konig grabbed her hair along with hitting her ten times in the head with a rock. The preliminary hearing for Konig is on March 31st and his $5 million bail has not been posted.