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: Sep. 29, 2023 at 8:31 AM EDT
|By Marissa Lute, Steven Ardary and Patrick Phillips
The man who led multiple law enforcement agencies on a 26-hour manhunt on Johns Island was fatally shot shortly after he killed a K-9 officer Thursday afternoon, the chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division said.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2023 at 6:31 PM EDT
|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. 19, 2023 at 8:32 AM EDT
|By Pilar Briggs, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Emily Johnson
Joint Base Charleston confirmed Monday night that found a debris field now believed to be the site of an F-35 crash two hours northeast of the base.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT
|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. 15, 2023 at 4:12 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has released surveillance video showing a detention deputy being assaulted inside the county jail.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys who represent convicted killer Alex Murdaugh have filed a motion for a new trial amid allegations the Colleton County clerk of court tampered with the jury during Murdaugh’s six-week trial earlier this year.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2023 at 4:41 PM EDT
|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: Aug. 5, 2023 at 5:09 AM EDT
|By Emily Johnson, Michal Higdon and Patrick Phillips
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office met a court-imposed deadline to turn over jailhouse calls involving a suspect in a deadly crash that killed a newlywed bride on Folly Beach.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2023 at 6:09 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Georgetown County will be the first county in South Carolina to switch to a new environmentally-friendly mosquito repellant and officials say the results speak for themselves.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 11:49 AM EDT
|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 5:54 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
The Charleston Animal Society says there’s a simple reason a missing pet found its way home a decade after it disappeared.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 2:07 PM EDT
|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: Apr. 3, 2023 at 5:18 PM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Attorneys representing the mother of Stephen Smith have announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone responsible for Smith’s death.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2023 at 5:26 AM EDT
|By Patrick Phillips
Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh has been moved to the statewide protective custody unit of a South Carolina maximum security prison.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 9:10 PM EDT
|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. 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.