In a message received late Monday night, Jackson Mayor Dobies called a press conference for 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.
At the meeting he immediately addressed the situation with Councilman, Andrew Frounfelker.
He announced that the councilman sent his letter of resignation to the mayor Monday night.
Tuesday, the mayor thanked him for his service and for "doing what's best."
"He reenters life as a private citizen," said Dobies.
Frounfelker is waiting to stand trial for assaulting his girlfriend. The alleged assault happened on May 22 at his apartment after a dinner out. The girlfriend, who is remaining anonymous, was in court on June 7 testifying about the incidents that led up to trial. She told the court: "I had to have surgery, I had to have two plates put into my face, one's above my eye, and one in my lower cheekbone. I had five fractured bones in my face including my nose."
The woman said that Frounfelker, "pushed me at first, then started screaming and hollering at me saying it was over, started hitting me in the eye, kept hitting me and I asked him to stop because it was the first day that I didn't have to wear my glasses or have any marks and it was my birthday."
Kristin Willcut, a friend to Frounfelker's girlfriend, got a text from the accuser that said, "Andy was acting crazy." That was followed by a picture of her friend's swollen face and a black eye. That's when she headed to the apartment to help.
The girlfriend said, "she started pounding on the door, and my phone kept ringing, and I said Kristin I'm fine, and I thought I hung up the phone but I didn't."
Willcut said, "I heard her choking, I heard her gasping for air, I heard her crying, and I heard him say 'I'm going to kill you."
The accuser says Frounfelker stopped hitting her when there was a knock at the door, "and told me not to answer, and I said, "Andy, I have to she's in the building, somebody's gonna call the police." The girlfriend let Willcut inside and within minutes they were on their way to the hospital.
After the hearing, Jackson Mayor Derek Dobies hinted that Frounfelker would eventually resign. He said the councilman told him he does not want to be a distraction.
FOX 47's Alani Letang was at the press conference and will have more on this story on FOX 47 at 10 PM.
