Ashlee Aldridge

No one really knew much.

And then I called a police station and the response I got from them was they couldn't tell me anything, but I just...

I got a feeling that things were a bit frantic, which is unusual when I usually call them.

So it was enough for me to sort of, you know, my journal gut to go, okay, there might be something happening.

So I sort of packed up the gear.

I'm a video journalist, so I packed up my camera.

And we made the decision that I would just go and see what was happening.

It's about an hour drive.

So I think I got there just after about 1130.

But on my drive there, I was actually being passed by police with their lights and sirens going because they were coming from Wodonga as well.

So when I did get there.

It was quite chaotic.

There was police everywhere.

I got out of the car and two police officers sort of ran at me and were telling me to leave, to get out of there.

It wasn't the time to be filming because I got my phone out and immediately started filming.

And then once I sort of explained to them who I was and that I was from the media, they were a bit more receptive.

So I was there pretty early on in the incident.

Yeah, I could see when I got there and the two police officers that first approached me and my colleagues weren't that far behind me.

So I wasn't there by myself for too long.

And as you can imagine, like the media really started to roll in.