To Ollie Hubbard, her daughter, Lauren Calvillo, was a generous teen who loved Drake, music and Instagram.

“Very much a normal kid,” Hubbard said. “She just loved life.”

Calvillo, 16, was shot on the 5500 block of Beall Avenue on her front porch while trying to protect five children from gang gunfire. Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of her 2015 death.

Since then, Hubbard has frequented anti-violence rallies. Part of Beall Avenue has been named in Calvillo’s honor. Hubbard has helped establish an annual college scholarship in Hammond.

Calvillo was a Hammond High School student.

In January 2018, federal prosecutors charged alleged members of the Jackson Street Latin Counts gang, including Ivan Reyes, who was charged with Calvillo’s murder.

Reyes and Romeo Castro, who was killed in Gary in December 2015, reportedly saw a group of Latin Kings at a vigil in the neighborhood, according to court documents, and drove to Calumet City to get a car and rifle. Reyes drove Castro back to the Beall Avenue area, according to court documents, and Castro opened fire on the group using a rifle.

Calvillo and Christopher White were shot. White, then 33, who was left quadriplegic as a result of the shooting, later died from his injuries, according to court documents.

The federal trial is set for Dec. 2.

“It hasn’t gotten easier with any time,” Hubbard said.

As a child, her daughter overcame a cancer diagnosis at 1, she said. By her 16th birthday, Hubbard decided to take her daughter to her dream destinations — the Mall of America, then later to Las Vegas.

“That was our last family vacation,” she said.

Four years later, Hubbard has worked to keep her daughter’s memory alive, not wanting her to be remembered only as a teen gunshot victim.

“I cry for Lauren every single day,” she said. “There’s not one day that goes by that I don’t shed tears for her.”

For the federal trial, Hubbard has been preparing her victim impact statement. Her younger son, now 16, has been devastated by her sister’s death, she said.

“I’ve been preparing for this day since the day that it happened,” she said. “I can’t tell you the devastation I went through of not knowing who killed my child. You can’t sleep at night.

“There’s nothing a mother (won’t do) to bring justice for your child,” Hubbard said.

Hubbard said she was grateful to Hammond police, detectives and prosecutors.

“They have taken her case to heart,” she said.