'IRA graffiti' near a primary school and a Protestant family's home has been slammed in the wake of Lyra McKee's murder.
The machine gun message was spray-painted on walls in towns and villages across East Tyrone "very recently".
One is reported to be near the entrance of a Catholic primary school in Stewartstown, while a Protestant family living in the town was also targeted.
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SDLP councillor Malachy Quinn has hit out at the graffiti "less than two days after Lyra McKee was shot dead".
He told Belfast Live: "I am disgusted at it all. I think the people who did it need to clear off.
"Less than two days after Lyra was murdered by faceless thugs these signs have appeared, among others, outside the wall of a Primary School and on the walls of land belonging to a Protestant family.
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"Not sure the words pathetic or disgusting go far enough anymore, I don't think those involved in these stunts listen to reason or logic. These need removed immediately from these properties and those who did this need to get a life."
It understood a few of the signs have now been painted over but Mr Quinn said he intends to head out with a paint brush to cover the rest.
He added: "It's nothing short of intimidation.
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"Do you want children walking into school asking their parents what it is?" he has asked those responsible.
"It's totally inappropriate to put it up in general."
Mr Quinn has described the signs as an "indoctrination" of sorts saying they made him "very, very angry" after the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry.
He said he is not sure when they went up, but said a lady living in one of the homes targeted "seemed to think it was very recently".
He added: "To put one outside her home is disgusting. They know who lives there and where they are from."
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