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. 22, 2023 at 6:35 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division released new details Wednesday afternoon, a day after attorneys for the family of a man killed in Hampton County said the case was now being considered a homicide.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 7:02 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Coroner’s Office has ruled the December death of an inmate as a homicide.
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 7:11 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol and Michal Higdon
The jury in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial has convicted the disbarred Lowcountry attorney with the murders of his wife and son.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 6:44 PM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Blair Sabol, Michal Higdon and Patrick Phillips
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team used closing arguments in his double-murder trial to make a plea to jurors and claim Murdaugh was the only target for state agents.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 4:58 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Attorneys in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial are expected to deliver their closing arguments beginning Wednesday after jurors visited the scene of the killings of the disbarred Lowcountry attorney’s wife and son in June of 2021.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 5:29 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Cameron Bopp
Prosecutors are expected to call two rebuttal witnesses in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial Tuesday, a day after the defense rested its case.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Molly McBride
The sixth week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial began Monday morning at the Colleton County Courthouse with word that the jury will be able to see the rural property where Murdaugh’s wife and son were shot to death.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2023 at 7:19 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
Disbarred Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will return to the stand Friday morning to face more questions as he stands trial for murder.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 5:42 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Cameron Bopp and Jeffrey Collins
Alex Murdaugh told the judge overseeing his murder trial he does plan to testify in his own defense.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Blair Sabol
The fourth week of the trial saw two jurors released because of COVID-19, Maggie Murdaugh’s sister taking the stand and a timeline that combined weeks worth of data.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 6:31 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Bodycam video that was shown to the jury in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial during the first week of testimony has been released by the court.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips, Marissa Lute and Blair Sabol
Week three of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial had lots of talk about his financial misdeeds, loud objections and a bomb threat.
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 5:40 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary and Jeffrey Collins
The judge presiding over the Alex Murdaugh murder trial told the courtroom Tuesday that a juror had to go to the emergency room but that it would not affect the trial.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2023 at 7:25 AM EST
|By Steven Ardary and Patrick Phillips
The first week of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial wrapped up Friday after a three-day jury selection, fiery opening statements and first responders detailing their response on the night his wife and son were killed.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 9:16 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips, Steven Ardary, Michal Higdon, Blair Sabol, Raphael James and Cameron Bopp
Before the start of jury selection in the murder trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh, his defense team had already filed a motion seeking to block testimony on potential blood evidence.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 7:51 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips and Steven Ardary
The trial of former Lowcountry attorney Alex Murdaugh will begin in Walterboro this week with jury selection set to begin Monday morning.
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: Oct. 5, 2022 at 8:02 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A collision between a train and a dump truck seriously injured the truck driver, firefighters who responded to the Tuesday afternoon crash said.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 11:50 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Firefighters responded Tuesday afternoon to a fully engulfed garbage truck burning in the Cane Bay neighborhood.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 11:35 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office says the 18-year-old man wanted in Tuesday’s shooting at the Ladson Department of Motor Vehicles Office is in custody.
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: May. 4, 2022 at 6:40 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
American Airlines confirmed a flight from the Charleston International Airport had to be diverted Tuesday night after encountering turbulence that damaged one of the plane’s wings.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:01 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
A parent’s video shows children ducking for cover Monday night as gunfire erupted during a youth baseball game in North Charleston.
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. 17, 2021 at 6:47 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Tyler Manion, Clinton Hinely, Bria Bolden and Paige Phillips
Attorney Alex Murdaugh is expected to return to rehab after a judge set bond for him Thursday on charges related to a Labor Day weekend shooting.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 8:36 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Congressman called impeachment “a very serious matter.”
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: Jun. 23, 2021 at 5:03 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The collapse of a pedestrian bridge Wednesday onto I-295 in Washington, D.C. sent five people to the hospital.
Updated: May. 24, 2021 at 12:01 AM EDT
|By Lillian Donahue, Riley Bean and Patrick Phillips
North Charleston’s police chief called for the community to come forward with information on a shooting that left a teenager dead and 14 others wounded at an unauthorized concert.
Updated: May. 6, 2021 at 2:17 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips, Adam Mintzer and WIS News 10 Staff
A Fort Jackson trainee has been arrested after boarding a school bus with a gun, deputies say.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2021 at 1:02 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
If you either make or purchase a fake COVID-19 vaccination record card, the FBI warns, you could be breaking the law.
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. 25, 2021 at 10:41 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Musician and Lowcountry native Darius Rucker quietly treated everyone dining at a restaurant he frequents to a free meal and also left a big tip for servers Sunday morning.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2021 at 3:34 PM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Berkeley County school traffic deputies and staffers worked together to expel a coyote that wandered into an elementary school building Wednesday.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2020 at 10:57 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston Police are searching for a teenage girl reported missing by her parents.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2020 at 2:00 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston Police Department is investigating vandalism discovered early Friday morning at the memorial site for nine city of Charleston firefighters killed in a 2007 furniture store fire.
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: May. 19, 2020 at 11:05 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Chick-Fil-A of Moncks Corner is paying tribute to their graduating team members with a special display in their drive thru this week.
Updated: Apr. 10, 2020 at 7:22 PM EDT
|By Danielle Seat and Patrick Phillips
Authorities have identified two people who were killed in a small plane crash near the Mount Pleasant airport Thursday night.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2020 at 5:49 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips and Sydney Pendrick
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will join public health officials in a news briefing to update the public on the coronavirus in South Carolina on Sunday.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2020 at 10:44 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday a 16-year-old girl who disappeared one week ago is back at home.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2020 at 11:35 AM EST
|By Patrick Phillips
Charleston Police are searching for a missing woman believed to be in danger.
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