The San Francisco district attorney’s office declined to file murder charges against two suspects arrested this week in the killing of a woman during an early morning dispute in the Tenderloin.

The suspects, a 17-year-old juvenile and 18-year-old Kevin Lopez-Figueroa, were charged with gun possession after being arrested last Friday on suspicion of killing 32-year-old Emma Hunt on Jan. 5.

The juvenile, who was not identified, and Lopez-Figueroa remain in custody pending upcoming detention hearings.

“The case remains under investigation,” said Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office.

The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrests Monday following a gathering by community activists and two city supervisors at Larkin and O’Farrell streets, where Hunt was fatally shot.

The supervisors, Shamann Walton and Matt Haney, whose district includes the Tenderloin, were working to bring attention to Hunt’s slaying along with the recent killings of two other black women in the city that have left 11 children without mothers.

This morning with Supervisor Haney and Black women leaders highlighting the fact that we need to do more to protect our women from violence. All deaths and homicides in SF are tragic, but we must bring attention to the violence that disproportionately affects women of color! pic.twitter.com/YSRts9u6T1 — Shamann Walton (@shamannwalton) January 13, 2020

Hunt got into an altercation shortly before 4 a.m. when a suspect pulled out a gun and shot her, officials said.

Police told Hunt’s family that she had been swinging a crate before being shot. A source familiar with the investigation told The Chronicle she was also holding a knife.

“The people have the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant did not act in lawful self-defense,” Bastian said.

Hunt, a mother of two, grew up on the streets in Ethiopia before being adopted by a family in San Joaquin County. She recently struggled with drug addiction, her family said, and was planning to enter a residential treatment program.

Evan Sernoffsky is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky