Maui doctor tried to use syringes on his wife while assaulting her on hiking trail, police say

HONOLULU (AP) — A Maui doc tried to usage 2 syringes connected his woman aft pushing her disconnected a hiking way and hitting her caput with a stone astir 10 times, constabulary said successful tribunal documents released Thursday.

Gerhardt Konig's bail was acceptable astatine $5 cardinal and a preliminary proceeding successful the attempted execution complaint is scheduled for adjacent week. An lawyer listed for him successful tribunal documents didn't instantly instrumentality an email seeking comment.

The alleged battle stemmed from Konig's tendency to instrumentality a selfie portion the mates was connected Pali Puka Trail successful Honolulu connected Monday, according to a probable origin papers filed successful court. The trailhead is simply a abbreviated thrust from downtown Honolulu and traverses a ridge with melodramatic water and upland views.

“She mentioned that portion connected the trail, Gerhardt was lasting adjacent to the borderline and asked her to instrumentality a selfie with him," said a Honolulu constabulary declaration. Konig's woman said she told him she didn't consciousness comfy taking a representation with him that adjacent to the borderline and began to locomotion back.

He yelled astatine her to travel backmost and erstwhile she refused, helium pushed her into bushes wherever they began to struggle, according to the document. The woman managed to get away.

Konig past picked up a stone and deed her connected the caput astir 10 times “while besides grabbing the backmost of her hairsbreadth and smashing her look into the ground,” the papers said. She crawled implicit to 2 hikers who heard her yelling for help, and the hikers called 911.

The woman besides told constabulary she saw “Gerhardt instrumentality retired 2 syringes from his container and effort to usage them connected her, but she was capable to get them distant from him,” the constabulary declaration said.

She sustained aggregate ample lacerations to her look and caput and was taken to a infirmary successful superior but unchangeable condition.

Konig fled the scene, prompting an hourslong hunt and the closure of a authorities park, constabulary said. Officers arrested him that aforesaid evening pursuing a little ft chase.

Konig is an anesthesiologist astatine Maui Health, which operates hospitals and clinics successful Maui County and is an affiliate of Kaiser Permanente. Maui Health said successful a connection to media organizations that helium was suspended pending investigation.

Maui Health’s online directory antecedently listed Konig arsenic a provider, according to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but his sanction was nary longer successful it Wednesday.

Kaiser Permanente said successful a connection that Konig is not an employee, but is employed by an autarkic entity contracted to supply aesculapian services. Kaiser said it has suspended his credentials and his quality to dainty patients, pending investigation.