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: Mar. 3, 2023 at 3:44 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jordan Gartner
Authorities the man is facing more than a dozen assault charges for inappropriately touching young girls.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 12:09 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh received two consecutive life sentences Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 9:41 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Gray News staff
Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murder in the killings of his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 5:46 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Gray News staff
The 12 jurors and two alternate jurors assembled Wednesday morning for a trip to the Colleton County property where Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were shot to death in June of 2021.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 6:29 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steve Ardary and Gray News staff
Murdaugh will be tried for two counts of murder and two weapons charges in the June 7, 2021, shooting deaths of his wife, 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh, and their youngest son, 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2023 at 6:23 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The remains were apparently sent from the municipality of Apatzingán, Michoacán, and addressed to South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 1:12 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Emily Van de Riet
A 5-year-old boy in South Carolina lost part of his leg and part of his hand in a lawn mower accident.
Updated: Jul. 19, 2022 at 11:07 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Debra Worley
The child was taken to the hospital but died from injuries suffered in the fall.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2022 at 1:07 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been charged with murder in the 2021 deaths of his wife and son.
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.
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