I don’t think it’s hit to kill, sounds more like fly by hypersonic and let the shock waves do the rest.
A Mach 1 sonic boom can break windows miles away. What would happen to something hypersonic that can barely be controlled when a Mach 7 boom slaps it sideways to its path?
So it hits Dayton instead of Cleveland?
San Jose instead of San Francisco?
Tacoma instead of Seattle?