‘He had so much more life’: Mom remembers Omaha teen who drowned at Wehrspann Lake

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — For Lincoln’s Michala Stepanek, every moment since last Thursday night has been excruciating.

“This has all just been the worst days of my life,” Stepanek said. “Like one day is not better than the next.”

Her 19-year-old son, Wyatt Bernal, drowned at Wehrspann Lake in Omaha’s Chalco Hills after the canoe he was in tipped over on July 2…

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