Three Court Orders Told Him Not to Touch a Gun and He Pleaded Guilty to Breaching All Three: Nathan Bell, 40, Draws Ten Years and Nine Months for the Moss Park Bus Stop Shooting, After a Jury Acquitted Him of Killing Kyle Provo (August 28, 2026)

TORONTO — Nathan Bell of Brampton was sentenced on Friday, August 28, 2026 to ten years and nine months for discharging a firearm with intent to wound at Sherbourne and Dundas streets in the early hours of September 16, 2023. The jury that heard the case had already acquitted him of murdering the man who died. What convicted him instead was the shooting itself and, on his own guilty plea entered at the sentencing hearing, the three separate court orders that had forbidden him from possessing a firearm at all.

Justice Philip Campbell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice delivered the sentence. Global News reporter Catherine McDonald published the account at 9:54 p.m. Friday. The Toronto Police Service has issued no release on the sentencing, and no criminal organization has been named by any agency at any point in this file.

An Acquittal on the Killing, a Conviction on the Firing

The split in this verdict is the whole of the file. A jury sitting for six weeks heard the Crown allege that Bell murdered Kyle Provo and tried to murder three others. It came back rejecting every one of those counts except a lesser included offence — discharging a firearm with intent to wound — on the third attempted murder charge.

Campbell was careful about what that means. Without direct insight into the jury’s reasoning, he wrote, it was likely the jurors rejected Bell’s claim of self-defence, concluded he shot Omer Gedo intending to wound him, and doubted he had formed the subjective intent to kill. That reasoning convicts Bell of firing into a crowd. It does not convict him of the death that followed, and this briefing does not treat him as responsible for it.

Thirty-Four Seconds on Camera

Surveillance video played at trial captured the shooting over roughly thirty-four seconds. Bell had travelled from Brampton to the area of Sherbourne and Dundas by Uber with his friend Richard Baker, where they were joined by Baker’s brother. The three moved toward a bus stop where a group of people had gathered after a social event in a nearby park. Socialising continued until about 2:45 a.m., when the shooting started.

Campbell’s judgment is blunt about the limits of what can be reconstructed. Exactly what preceded the violent altercation and precipitated it, he wrote, is not clear, but the evidence suggests there was an antagonistic verbal exchange about property or robbery or both. During that exchange Omer Gedo stood up and walked toward the three new arrivals with what the judge described as a waddling gait, side to side. There was evidence of an elongated object in his hand. Gedo was later found to have a hatchet or small axe in the front pocket of his hoodie.

Baker and Gedo closed on each other at a fence on the east side of the sidewalk. Then the gunfire began and the people around the bus stop scattered. Four of them were hit. Bell, Baker and Baker’s brother fled, and were arrested a week later.

The Three Orders Are Why This File Sits on This Beat

No police force has attached a gang, a club or a network to Nathan Bell. This briefing attaches none either. What puts the file squarely in scope is a fact Bell conceded himself: at the moment he fired, he was subject to three separate court orders prohibiting him from possessing a firearm, and he pleaded guilty to breaching all three.

Campbell put it in terms that require no gang label at all. This late-night public shooting, in a crowded setting, by a man who carries an illegal firearm as a matter of routine, in defiance of the law and court orders, requires a stern sentence, at the upper bound of the appropriate range. The judge cited deterrence of gun violence, and Bell’s own history of firearms and weapons offences, in arriving at the number.

What the Judge Said About the Man He Was Sentencing

Campbell declined to close the file on Bell as a person. He recorded that Bell, in his allocution, expressed remorse for the harm caused to the four people shot at the bus stop, and quoted him saying he knew he would have to let the guns go and vowing there would be no more guns for him. It definitely is not worth it, Bell said.

The judge noted that Bell has a mother and a sister who love him, extended family, what Campbell called a winning personality and an agile intelligence. He can be assisted in overcoming his history if he will accept help, Campbell said, though this is up to him and, at present, a matter of uncertainty. The judge added that he would not want his reasons understood as sending Bell to prison with a judicial stamp of incorrigibility on him, and that there are enigmatic aspects to his history and character. Bell was then led from the courtroom to begin serving the sentence.