Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is skipping some events this weekend in the key early primary state of South Carolina as the South Bend, Indiana mayor continues to manage the politically fraught aftermath of the police shooting of a black man.

Buttigieg was slated to attend the Blue Palmetto Dinner in Columbia and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn’s fish fry nearby, where a slew of other 2020 candidates are set to attend. But Buttigieg, 37, is instead returning to South Bend where he has spent much of the past week out of the public eye amid an ongoing investigation into the police shooting of 54-year-old Eric Logan, a black man, early Sunday morning while responding to a call about a man breaking into cars.

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