A doctor attempted to kill his wife while they were hiking in Hawaii, first by trying to push her off the trail and then by hitting her in the head with a rock, officials said Tuesday.
Officers found Gerhardt Konig, 46, an anesthesiologist, near Pali Highway and "arrested him after a brief foot pursuit," Honolulu police said in statement.
Konig and his wife were hiking Monday morning "when he attempted to push her off a hiking trail and struck her in the head with a rock," police added.
She was rushed to a hospital, where she was listed in critical condition.
As of Tuesday morning, Konig still had his licenses to practice medicine in Hawaii, where he appears to be a relatively new resident, with his original license dating to Sept. 27, 2022.
Konig and his wife both have ties to Pittsburgh, their social media profiles showed.
Konig worked at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and was a professor at Pitt before they moved to Hawaii, his LinkedIn profile said.
His wife got her bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering from Penn State and her MBA from Pitt, her LinkedIn account showed. She's a project manager at TerraPower, which is a nuclear reactor design and development engineering company.
