The Annecy shootings Use_firearm , also the French Alps shootings Use_firearm or the Chevaline killings Killing , were the deaths Death on 5 September 2012 of three members of a British family and a French citizen on the `` Route Forestière Domaniale de la Combe d'Ire '' near Chevaline , Haute-Savoie , near the southern end of Lake Annecy .