Patrick Phillips
Digital Content Manager
Charleston, SC
Patrick is the digital content manager for Live 5 News in Charleston.
He joined the Live 5 News team in October 2006 and has been managing the station's website since March 2014.
He began his broadcasting career in 1991 at WLTX-TV in Columbia and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Broadcasting.
Updated: Jun. 7, 2022 at 4:56 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News Staff
A South Carolina sheriff revealed her deputy ran a stop sign before a crash that killed a mother and two daughters.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2022 at 1:10 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Police received a call at approximately 11:30 a.m. Thursday about children in a vehicle in a strip mall.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 1:25 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The sound of gunfire interrupted a youth baseball game in South Carolina Monday night.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2022 at 3:23 PM EST
|By Amanda Alvarado, Patrick Phillips, Emilie Zuhowski and Cameron Bopp
Footage recorded by Brandon Fierro shows the moment the structure sways and then falls onto an Amazon delivery vehicle.
Updated: Dec. 13, 2021 at 1:54 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Gray News staff and Summer Huechtker
Charleston County dispatchers received multiple calls at about 2:09 a.m. about a disturbance that ended in a shooting inside Players Place Billiards and Sports Bar.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 5:11 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Dylann Roof has filed the next step in his federal appeal of his death sentence in the 2015 killings of nine parishioners at Mother Emanuel AME Church.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2021 at 1:21 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the death sentence for Dylann Roof in the 2015 shooting that killed nine members of a Charleston church.
Updated: May. 21, 2021 at 7:44 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says salmonella outbreaks in 43 states, including South Carolina, have been linked to backyard poultry.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2021 at 2:36 PM EDT
|By Adam Mintzer and Patrick Phillips
A federal judge has blocked South Carolina’s new abortion ban from taking effect.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2021 at 9:06 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
As his adopted hometown mourned Hank Aaron’s death, some fans called on the Atlanta Braves to change their name to the Hammers in his honor.
Updated: Jun. 20, 2020 at 11:16 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The son of one of the nine victims of the Charleston church shooting learned his new book is a top new release on Amazon.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2020 at 4:26 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Nick Reagan
Wednesday morning’s graduation ceremony at Ashley Ridge High School will surely be one the school and the Class of 2020 won’t ever forget.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2020 at 1:27 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston County deputies say they are looking for a man who walked into a North Charleston home and attempted to kidnap a 7-year-old girl.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2020 at 9:10 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Volunteers who searched for a yellow Lab mix missing for two weeks from a truck stolen in North Charleston shared hugs with her owner near the area where she was found dead early Sunday morning.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2019 at 12:37 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Boeing’s CEO is resigning as the crisis enveloping the manufacturer related to its marquee aircraft, the 737 Max aircraft, drags on.
Updated: Nov. 25, 2019 at 5:10 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
In a newly-released 911 recording, a man told Berkeley County dispatchers he had stabbed his wife and stepdaughter to death in the driveway of their Goose Creek home.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2019 at 12:55 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The sound of explosions when a live wire fell into flood water on a downtown Charleston street could be heard blocks away Thursday afternoon.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2019 at 3:41 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Berkeley County Animal Control officers responded Wednesday in the hours before Hurricane Dorian approached the South Carolina coastline to an unwelcome subject.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2019 at 11:54 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Leaders from across Beaufort County held a news conference Sunday urging people to do everything they can now to prepare for impacts from Hurricane Dorian.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2019 at 4:17 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A former commercial helicopter pilot has become the first female Marine to pilot the F-35, a next-generation joint strike fighter aircraft.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2019 at 1:12 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
No criminal charges will be filed in the March death of a 10-year-old Colleton County girl who died after a fight in her classroom, the solicitor says.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2019 at 3:46 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The veteran North Charleston firefighter whose rescue of a three-month old puppy went viral on social media last weekend gave the puppy a forever home Saturday.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2019 at 7:58 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
As a community waits for word about the cause of death for a 10-year-old girl who died two days after a fight in her Colleton County school, attorneys for her family say the child’s loved ones are demanding transparency.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2019 at 8:17 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Ray Rivera
Flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals were left in front of a Colleton County elementary school where investigators say a fight in a classroom led to the death of a 10-year-old girl two days later.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2018 at 1:26 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
The Centers for Disease Control says a Salmonella outbreak has now made 164 people sick across 35 states.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2018 at 6:08 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Deputies are investigating a reported assault Tuesday that involved multiple people, some of whom are believed to be high school students.