(CNN) -- The 54-year-old Michigan tree trimmer severely beaten after he accidentally struck a child who had stepped into the street earlier this month is breathing on his own, according to his daughter. 

"He is off the ventilator and is able to breathe on his own," Mandi Marie Utash posted Friday to a GoFundMe.com page she and her brother set up for their father, who they say does not have health insurance. 

Steven Utash was set upon by about a dozen people after his truck struck a 10-year-old boy, police said. After Utash stopped his vehicle to help the boy, he was "severely beaten" with "fists and feet," Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement. 

Authorities credited a woman who stepped in as Utash was being attacked with saving his life. 

Mandi Marie Utash wrote that her father doesn't seem to know what happened to him or why he was in the hospital, but that he is able to wiggle his toes on command and answer yes or no questions. "These are baby steps," she says. 

She wrote that her father "keeps flashing back to the assault screaming for "HELP" and "PLEASE GET THEM OFF ME." 

"This is a long road ahead," she said. "But the end of the road will be worth it." 

Steven Utash had previously been in a medically induced coma. 

Jennifer Moreno, a police spokeswoman, told CNN that all of the alleged assailants were African-American and that none are known to be related to the boy or his family. She said the beating was "a spontaneous response." Utash is white. 

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who was beaten?
2. Why?
3. Did the kid live?
4. How old was the kid?
5. Why did he hit the kid?
6. Where?
7. When?
8. What was he driving?
9. Who beat him up?
10. Why?
11. Were they the relatives of the kid?
12. What did they beat him up with?
13. How bad was he hurt?
14. Where did he go afterwards?
15. What was his condition?
16. Who found them?
17. Who intervened?
18. Did he have any siblings?
19. relatives?
20. What did she communicate about it?

Numbered answers:
1. tree trimmer
2. he accidentally struck a child
3. yes, able to breathe on his own
4. 10
5. accidental
6. Michigan
7. earlier this month
8. his vehicle
9. dozen people
10. his truck struck a 10-year-old boy
11. unknown
12. "fists and feet,"
13. "This is a long road ahead
14. unknown
15. he is able to wiggle his toes on command and answer yes or no questions
16. unknown
17. Mandi Marie Utash
18. unknown
19. Mandi Marie Utash, his daughter,
20. "This is a long road ahead," she said. "But the end of the road will be worth it."