Arielle said in the filing that she threw herself to the ground and Gerhardt started wrestling with her. As they struggled, she alleged, “Gerhardt grabbed his bag and took out a syringe with an unknown substance, attempting to inject me with it.”
She managed to grab the syringe and throw it away from them, the petition said, but she saw he was still holding a vial of something and started looking in his bag. Arielle suspected he was looking for another syringe, she said in the filing, and it was then she believed she bit her husband’s forearm.
Gerhardt seemed to “calm down slightly,” Arielle alleged in the petition, but then he grabbed a rock and started “bashing” her in the head “repeatedly,” cutting her face and scalp.
Attempting to defend herself, Arielle said in the filing, she suffered a broken left thumb.
“I was screaming and pleading with him to stop, asking him to think about our children,” she continued in the filing. “If I had fallen off the cliff, I would have likely died.”
According to Honolulu Police, two witnesses called 911 to report a man beating a woman. By the time authorities arrived, Gerhardt was gone, and Arielle was transported by ambulance to a hospital in critical condition, police said.
