Video: Microsoft employee badly beaten in Belltown neighborhood

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SEATTLE – A Microsoft employee who was beaten then forced to the ground, slamming his head onto the sidewalk, is in intensive care.

Early Sunday morning, police say Daniel Stoy was wrapping up an evening on the town in the 2200 block of First Avenue when four or five men approached him. One threw a punch that knocked Stoy on the sidewalk, fracturing his skull.

"He's never fought anybody in his life. He'd just as soon walk away," said Patrick Stoy, Daniel's father.

A witness performed CPR on the Stoy until medics arrived and transported him to Harborview Medical Center.

Stoy is now conscious and able to talk with his parents, but the young man who overcame a learning disability to finish graduate school and land his dream job still has a long way to go.

"There's a reasonable chance he'll fully recover. There's some part of a chance he'll be 90 percent and part he'll be 50 percent. He's got a lot of healing to do," said Patrick.

Microsoft says Stoy is a technical account manager based in Fargo, North Dakota. He was in town for Microsoft's annual conference.

In May, Seattle doctor Peter Choi was also assaulted in Belltown, He too suffered a serious head injury. He is out of the hospital but is still unable to work. There have been no arrests in his case.

Some now say Belltown is a neighborhood in crisis. Numerous employees from several restaurants say the area has become a place for open air drug dealing, plenty of loud arguments on the street and a scene at nighttime that they say is downright scary.