Mother found stabbed to death five days after chilling Facebook status
By Stephen Rex Brown
"SOOOOOOOO IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ME TONIGHT JUST LET MY KIDS KNOW I LOVED THEM DEARLY AND TELL MY MOMMA I LOVE HER," Michelle Rowling, 25, wrote on Nov. 25. Five days later she was stabbed to death. (Facebook)
An East St. Louis woman predicted her own death on Facebook five days before she was stabbed to death.
"SOOOOOOOO IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ME TONIGHT JUST LET MY KIDS KNOW I LOVED THEM DEARLY AND TELL MY MOMMA I LOVE HER," Michelle Rowling, 25, wrote on Facebook on Nov. 25.
The following Saturday cops found her dead in her apartment, stabbed multiple times.
Police are searching for Rowling's ex-boyfriend, Montrell Cooper, 25, who threatened to kill her while he was behind bars, Fox 2 in St. Louis reported.
Michelle Rowling predicted her own death in a chilling Facebook post. (Facebook)
East St. Louis Chief of Police Michael Floore told the Daily News that the day of the ominous post Rowling had learned Cooper had just been released from jail for assaulting her in August.
"It's been an ongoing situation between them," said Floores. "He stabbed her in the neck in 2012. Then he jumped on her again in August. Then he got out of jail."
Rowling left behind two young children.
East St. Louis police are searching for Montrell Cooper, 25, in connection to the slaying. He had previously stabbed and assaulted Michelle Rowling. Cops say she had learned Cooper had just been released from jail and then predicted her own death. (Courtesy of East St. Louis Police Department)
"I LOVE MY TWO SOOOOOOOOO MUCH," she wrote five days before she was killed.
Once her friends online heard the news of her death, they expressed their condolences on the same chilling post.
"I wish there was more we could have done you didn't deserve this Michelle," one friend wrote.
Michelle Rowling, 25, of East St. Louis, left behind two young children. (Facebook)
"just putting this (together) smh...the f----- up news was that he got out of jail..... I swear to god I wish she would have just told me," another wrote.
Fox 2 reported police had recovered Cooper's abandoned SUV.
The search for him is ongoing.
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