Photos: Woman Found Stabbed to Death

A mother has been found fatally stabbed in her apartment five days after posting a terrifying message to Facebook warning her friends that she might die.

'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, posted on Monday.

Family and friends say the message referred to her ex-boyfriend, 25-year-old Montrell Cooper, who was released from jail that day. He had been locked up for assaulting Rowling in August.

On Saturday, police were called to her housing complex in East St Louis, Missouri to investigate a disturbance at around 9pm when they found the young mother with multiple stab wounds.

Killed: Michelle Rowling, left, was found stabbed in her apartment five days after warning friends on Facebook that she might die. That same day, her ex-boyfriend, Montrell Cooper, right, was released from prison

Rowling, mother to an eight-year-old son and a three-year-old daughter, was taken to a nearby hospital but pronounced dead on arrival.

Cooper is now being sought as a person of interest in the case.