For years, Umanos and his wife Jan, along with their children, lived in the Lawndale community of Chicago, an area battered by 1968 riots that never came back economically. Lawndale Community Church launched a community development corporation that spurred urban renewal with housing, vocational training, and the Lawndale Christian Health Center, a clinic where Umanos served for 25 years.

Jerry Umanos was a doctor so driven to serve the underserved that he held two jobs—with a 7,000-mile commute between them.

For many years, Umanos divided his time between Lawndale Christian Health Center in Chicago and the Cure Hospital in Kabul, where he was gunned down today when a policeman employed as a security guard, possibly also a Taliban fighter, attacked the hospital.

This latest insider attack in Afghanistan killed Umanos and a father and son—also Americans but not yet identified—who were visiting the hospital.

“As they were walking out of the hospital, the security guard opened fire on them, killing three and wounding another one,” an Afghanistan Interior Ministry official said. The wounded included an American nurse, according to reports.

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