Gerhardt Konig: Doctor accused of attempting to kill spouse in Hawaii with rock pleads not responsible as his lawyer claims ‘two sides to every story’ | EUROtoday

A health care provider has denied attempting to kill his spouse with a rock on a birthday trip in Hawaii, along with his lawyer claiming “there are two sides to every story”.

Gerhardt Konig pleaded not responsible throughout a courtroom listening to on Monday, after he was accused of an assault on his nuclear engineer spouse Arielle Konig.

“Dr. Konig’s not guilty plea this morning was not just a formality, but a substantive response to the allegation that he tried to kill his wife,” Konig’s lawyer Thomas Otake stated in a press release, per Courthouse News Service.

“There are two sides to every story, and thus far only one side has been shared. The other side to this story will be shared within the court process at the appropriate time.”

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Ms Konig, 36, alleges that when the pair were hiking along the Pali Puka Trail in Oahu last month her husband, 46, tried to lure her close by asking her to take a selfie with him, according to court documents seen by ABC News.

She claims that her husband began beating her head with a rock, 10 times, while grabbing the back of her head and pushing her face into the ground, as per the documents. A witness said she heard the woman screaming out for help, the court documents added.

The witness said the man stopped the attack as soon as he saw her, and she called 911, it is claimed.

The victim was left with multiple wounds to her face, and was hospitalized in a serious but stable condition, the court documents add. The couple had reportedly been on vacation to celebrate her birthday.

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Ms Konig claimed in a subsequent assertion, included in her petition for a restraining order, that the alleged assault was premeditated and got here after years of emotional and bodily abuse, per Courthouse News.

Her husband was arrested on March 24 and charged with second-degree tried homicide. His employer, the Anesthesia Medical Group, stated he had since been suspended pending investigation, CBS News studies.

The Maui resident physician previously labored at UPMC in Pittsburgh, as an attending anesthesiologist at a ladies’s hospital and an assistant professor of anesthesiology and bioengineering on the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Engineering, in keeping with the New York Post.

He stays in custody on the Oahu Community Correctional Center and a tentative trial date has been set for June 9.