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: Jan. 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM HST
|By Patrick Phillips, Jenna Herazo and Gray News staff
The dog survived her abuse and healed better than expected, thriving for years in her new life and "forever home."
Updated: Jan. 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips, Kevin Bilodeau and Jordan Gartner
A former NFL player was arrested in South Carolina early Friday morning in connection with a hit-and-run crash that involved four vehicles.
Updated: Jan. 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM HST
|By Colt Yeargin, Patrick Phillips and Amanda Alvarado
A man was injured by falling drones during a New Year's Eve drone show.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2024 at 5:44 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips, Caroline Spikes and Dorothy Sedovic
Four monkeys remain uncaptured weeks after 43 primates escaped from a research facility in South Carolina.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2024 at 9:25 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips, Marissa Thompson and Amanda Alvarado
A sergeant was killed in a hit-and-run on the way to work.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM HST
|By Raphael James, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Veterans Day is particularly special for one World War II Navy veteran in South Carolina who marked a major birthday.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2024 at 5:27 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips, Marissa Thompson and Dorothy Sedovic
According to the arrest warrant, the man mistook the rustling of leaves by the trail for deer and fired rounds from a shotgun.
Updated: May. 30, 2024 at 3:31 AM HST
|By Blair Sabol, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
A homeowner shot the monkey, saying their dog was being threatened by it, an official said.
Updated: May. 26, 2024 at 2:24 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips and Amanda Alvarado
A man was surprised to find an alligator underneath his car.
Updated: Apr. 10, 2024 at 12:51 PM HST
|By Blair Sabol, Patrick Phillips and Jordan Gartner
An off-duty police officer who shot and killed a man last month has been charged with murder.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2024 at 3:38 PM HST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Marissa Lute, James Pollard, Jeffrey Collins and Gray News staff
A South Carolina judge denied Alex Murdaugh’s bid for a new double-murder trial on Monday after his defense team accused a clerk of court with tampering with a jury.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2024 at 4:46 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips, Molly McBride and Gray News staff
The woman's sister said they’ve been experiencing a lack of communication throughout the investigation.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2024 at 3:22 PM HST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
Victor and Megan Turner are charged with murder in the death of Justin Lee Turner in March 1989.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2023 at 7:51 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
A 72-year-old woman who died Sunday after she become trapped in a submerged vehicle during Sunday night’s downpour in South Carolina.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 11:33 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Murdaugh pleaded guilty on Nov. 17 in a plea agreement prosecutor Creighton Waters said covered multiple charges across multiple indictments from multiple counties.
Updated: Nov. 1, 2023 at 3:18 PM HST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jordan Gartner
Attorneys representing Alex Murdaugh want the judge who presided over his murder trial removed from all future trials and hearings.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2023 at 5:24 PM HST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
A witness called 911 to report a man being mauled by two pit bulls in a neighborhood in Moncks Corner.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2023 at 11:57 PM HST
|By Patrick Phillips, Caitlin Ashbaugh and Gray News staff
The toddler's arm was severed in the incident, but thanks to the officer's actions, doctors were able to reattach it.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2023 at 12:31 PM HST
|By Marissa Lute, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Authorities confirmed Thursday afternoon that Ernest Robert Burbage III was found dead.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 1:00 PM HST
|By Pilar Briggs, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Emily Johnson
Teams from various federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies worked together to locate the U.S. Marine Corps F-35B.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2023 at 10:41 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
Murdaugh was convicted and sentenced in March for the shooting deaths of his wife and their son at the family’s hunting property.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 5:49 AM HST
|By Patrick Phillips and Gray News staff
The convicted murderer is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud, one count of bank fraud, a total of five counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 14 counts of money laundering.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 8:07 AM HST
|By Brad Dickerson, Nikki Hauser, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Debra Worley
The driver accused of crashing into a golf cart and killing a bride just hours after her wedding reception was very unsteady and almost fell when asked to complete a field sobriety test, authorities said.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 3:10 PM HST
|By Patrick Phillips and Jordan Gartner
Former attorney and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh is in the protective custody unit of a maximum security prison, according to officials.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 10:44 AM HST
|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 7:09 AM HST
|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 4:41 PM HST
|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 12:46 PM HST
|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 1:29 AM HST
|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 1:23 PM HST
|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 7:12 AM HST
|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 5:07 AM HST
|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 7:07 AM HST
|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 10:56 AM HST
|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 7:10 AM HST
|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. 25, 2022 at 7:25 PM HST
|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 10:23 AM HST
|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 8:54 AM HST
|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: Jun. 10, 2020 at 10:26 PM HST
|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. 5, 2020 at 4:10 PM HST
|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: Apr. 19, 2019 at 7:12 AM HST
|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 9:46 AM HST
|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 1:58 PM HST
|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.