Links Sought in 3 Watts Slayings Over 4-Hour Period : Crime: The victims lived at Jordan Downs and Nickerson Gardens housing projects. Relatives of two of the men, who knew each other, believe the killings are related.

Police are trying to determine if there is any connection among the killings of three men within four hours late Tuesday and early Wednesday in the Watts housing projects of Jordan Downs and Nickerson Gardens.

The first man slain was 22-year-old DeAndra Turner, who was shot about 9 p.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of East 99th Place, police said. About 10:45 p.m., 32-year-old Eddie Felton was shot a few blocks away in the 2100 block of East 102nd St., said Detective Dan Myers of the South Bureau Homicide Division. Then about 1:15 a.m., Gerald Neal, 29, was fatally wounded in the 1300 block of East 114th St.

Police said they are trying to determine if there are links but would not release any details Wednesday.

But family members said the deaths of Felton and Turner, who knew each other, may be connected.

“Somebody came over here and told Eddie that (DeAndra) had been killed and the next thing you know (Felton) was dead,” said Felton’s aunt, Marie Fleming. Both men lived in the Jordan Downs project.

Turner, who worked as a baby-sitter, was outside his girlfriend’s apartment when he was shot. Charlotte Miller, 20, with whom Turner lived, said she heard gunshots and then someone knocked on her front door. “I was scared and confused,” she said as she sat in her living room, surrounded by relatives. “I just had a feeling that I shouldn’t open the door. I was scared to even look out the window.”

Felton was shooting dice outside his girlfriend’s apartment when someone told him that Turner had been shot. Soon, he too had been killed.

“Maybe they saw all his money during the dice game,” Irma Friend said about her boyfriend. Friend said witnesses told her Felton was shot in the head and robbed.

Friend said Felton worked part-time as a painter for the Los Angeles Housing Authority and for a company that removes asbestos. Felton’s niece, Surdinaya Hamilton, said the shooting may have been the result of animosity over her uncle trying to improve his life.

“They were jealous of Eddie because he had got a job and was trying to do something for himself,” Hamilton said.

Neal, the third man killed, was shot just a few miles away in the Nickerson Gardens housing project. His body was slumped between two buildings.