Is my starter dead??

[nice6shot]

Hello and how is everyone. This is my first post so please don't bash on me hard. I searched the forums but haven't found a accurate solution to my problem yet. Anyways, this how the story goes. I took my car to my local gas station, it was running perfect and whatnot. I turned the car off and walked into the gas station to purchases my goods, leave the store and go back to my car. I place everything I bought into the passenger seat and went to start my car with no success. All I get is a one click noise every time I tried to start it. A frendly guy comes up and offers me a jump which I tried incase it was a battery issue but pretty sure it's not because my voltage gage was at 12 volts before hand. Anyways, tried the jump start and it didn't help at all. Lucky there was a few more guys that was nice enough to push me for a rolling start (manual trans) and it fired up. There was no issue as I was driving it back home like putting or anything of that nature. I got the car home perfectly. I turned it off again and tried to turnover the motor and I got the one click sound again. Does anyone know if this sounds like the starter is actually toast or maybe a wire came loose? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jerryd1987]

jack it up and run power to the solenoid, single roughly 12 gauge wire with a actual connector(vs a terminal im sure you know the difference of the solenoid wire and battery cable though lol)